Software Defined Talk - Episodes Tagged with “Interview”

Episode 567: Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Alberto González, CTO of WebRTC.ventures, about building voice and streaming applications for the enterprise. They dig into how developers can integrate WebRTC into their apps, the unique challenges it presents, and where AI fits in. Plus, Alberto shares tips on kitesurfing and why you should visit Barcelona.

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LinkedIn: Alberto González
Web: https://agonza1.github.io/

Special Guest: Alberto González.

Episode 558: Tara Raj on Amazon Nova Act

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Tara Raj, Senior Engineering Manager at the Amazon AGI Lab. They dive into her journey into the world of AGI, how Nova Act is streamlining complex workflows, and the steps to deploying your very own Normcore Agent. Plus, Tara finally settles the heated debate: Flat vs. Curved monitors.

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Twitter: @tara_amzn

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Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud.

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0200

Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare.

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LinkedIn: Yuriy Shyyan

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Episode 538: Michael Irwin on Docker, Developers, and AI

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Michael Irwin, Principal Engineer at Docker. They cover Docker’s evolution, why hardened images matter, and how AI fits in. Plus, Michael shares stories from teaching computer science.

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LinkedIn: mikesir87
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Blog: https://blog.mikesir87.io/

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Episode 527: Victor Adossi on WebAssembly

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Victor Adossi, an engineer at Cosmonic. They discuss the state of WebAssembly, wasmCloud, and why Wasm is poised for growth. Plus, Victor shares what it’s like to live as an expat in Japan.

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Github: t3hmrman and vados-cosmonic
Twitter: @vadosware
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Episode 523: Sterling Chin on APIs, AI, and Building MCP Servers

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon talks with Sterling Chin, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman, about building great APIs, why AI needs APIs, and what’s new at Postman. Plus, hear how he made the leap from 3rd-grade teacher to dev advocate.

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Episode 515: Rick Houlihan, MongoDB Field CTO on Document Databases

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon talks with Rick Houlihan, Field CTO at MongoDB, about why document databases are more important than ever, how MongoDB fits into modern app architectures, and where AI comes into play. Plus, Rick shares the story of how he helped deprecate 3,000 Oracle databases at Amazon.

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Episode 508: Software Defined Interviews Crossover: PaaS and Career Advice with Brian Gracely

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0100

This week, we're sharing a Software Defined Interviews episode. Coté and Whitney talk with Brian Gracely from the Cloudcast and Red Hat about cloud news, PaaS evolution, and career advice. If you like this, subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more great conversations!

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Special Guests: Brian Gracely and Whitney Lee.

Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Aran Khanna, CEO of Archera, on user privacy, his work on DeepLens at AWS, and Archera’s "cloud insurance" model. Plus, Aran shares how he lost his Facebook internship before it started.

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Twitter: arankhanna

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Episode 489: Whitney Lee: From Wedding Photographer to Cloud-Native DevRel

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:30:00 +0200

This episode is from the reboot of Software Defined Interviews. Whitney Lee joins Coté to discuss her varied career path, from artist and wedding photographer to her career in DevRel within the cloud-native world. They kick off this revamped series with an engaging conversation. Expect new episodes of Software Defined Interviews every two weeks!

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Full show notes for Software Defined Interivews Episode 83.

Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

Episode 470: Paul Yuknewicz on Serverless

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:30:00 +0200

Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow.

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LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz
Twitter: @paulyuki99

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Special Guest: Paul Yuknewicz.

Episode 469: Amanda K. Silver on Developer Tools

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 31 May 2024 07:30:00 +0200

Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks.

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visualstudio.com

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Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:30:00 +0200

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.

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Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
Two way door decisions
Dogs not barking.
Weasel words.
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.

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LinkedIn: Jana Werner.

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The Cards

Here's the text of the all the cards:

Mechanism

How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?

Culture

How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?

Organisation

How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?

Leadership

How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?

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Special Guest: Jana Werner.

Episode 460: Tom Wilkie on Observability

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:30:00 +0100

Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project.

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Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:30:00 +0100

This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital.

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Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:30:00 +0100

Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”.

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Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit.

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Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon is joined by Richard Seroter, Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud. They discuss the key announcements from Google Cloud Next ’23, Richard's recommendations for a successful tech newsletter and VMware's impending acquisition.

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Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Mike Long, the CEO and Co-founder of Kosli. They discuss Mike's background, his experience as a DevOps Consultant, and the reasons behind starting Kosli. Plus, Mike offers a few tips about visiting Oslo.

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Episode 425: Michael Kennedy on Python

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Michael Kennedy, host of Talk Python to Me and founder of Talk Python Training. They discuss Python’s rapid growth, replacing Excel Worksheets with Jypter Notebooks and why Python is the preferred language for AI. Plus, a few thoughts on podcasting and motorcycles.

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Special Guest: Michael Kennedy.

Episode 424: William Morgan on Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews William Morgan, Buoyant CEO and creator of Linkerd. They discuss building cloud native platforms, the need for Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF. Plus, some thoughts on the rise of Rust as the preferred systems programming language.

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Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.

Nonsense

ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers
- If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
- Guns N’ Roses
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
  - Appetite for Destruction
- Rick Astley
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)

Interview links

Basecamp
HEY!
Daily Rush
- Quake III Arena
PHP and Ruby
37signals and Jason Fried
Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Ruby on Rails
- “Groovy on Grails”
1000 true fans
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”
Backpack and Campfire
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
- A podcast explaining it
“The Building of Basecamp” (and review)
David’s books:
- Getting Real
- Rework
- Remote
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The programming books that meant the most to David
Fast inverse square root
- David’s best tweet
- AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
The Celeron 4
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
- “Why we’re leaving the cloud”
- "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
- “Five values guiding our cloud exit”
- “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
- "Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
- “We have left the cloud”
HEY vs the App Store
Deft and Dell
MRSK
- Capistrano
- GitHub contributor community
- Maersk
Harmony remotes discontinued
The continuing demise of Reddit
- Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
24 Hours of Le Mans
- 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
- Result table

David Heinemeier Hansson

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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).

Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source.

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Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations.

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Episode 411: Jamin Ball on Cloud Earnings

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Episode 410: Jordan Tigani on the death of Big Data

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:30:00 +0200

This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck.

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Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.

Episode 406: John Willis on Deming, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:30:00 +0100

John Willis joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering.

There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well.

Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode.

Links:

Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here.
Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age.
SCaLE 20x.
DevOpsDays LA.

Special Guest: John Willis.

Episode 405: Peter Pouliot on DevRel at a hardware company

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:30:00 +0100

Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere. They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend.

Links:

Contact Peter:

SDT news & hype

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Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.

Episode 404: Sargun Kaur on Technical Interviews

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur , Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard. They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO.

Show Links:

Byteboard

Contact Sargun

LinkedIn
Twitter: @justsargs

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

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Special Guest: Sargun Kaur.

Episode 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:30:00 +0100

This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News newsletter and follow him on Mastodon and Twitter(?)

This interview was done on January 16th, 2023.

Runner-up Titles

You sound like an Australian
The Mystery of the Cold Open
D-list Celebrities
The Americans are asleep
All the swans belong to the Queen
A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it

Rundown

Global Entry, New Zealand-style
Is there another podcast in the future?
Learning by osmosis
Developer advocacy at Google
You’re not tall enough to ride this ride
Joining ARMO
Kubescape, the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform
OpenCost and Kubescape, CNCF Sandbox Projects
You’re already in my calendar
ARMO monetization strategy
All Blacks vs. Wallabies
Who are these weird celebrities?
The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre
TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter

Conferences

Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
- Matt & Coté!
- Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Special Guest: Craig Box.

Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:30:00 +0100

Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik, lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships.

Links mentioned:

Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition, and the laptop itself and other Linux on Dell machine.
Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site, which you can see here.
Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Desktops - In addition to XPS 13 and Precision developer systems, this also features the Linux-enabled Latitude and Optiplex lines. Latitude and Optiplex are part of the broader Dell Linux portfolio which is made up of over 100 systems.
Dell's Sputnik - Git what you want, 2021.
Project Sputnik --_ Cote interviews Barton_, May 7, 2012.
Sputnik Developer Laptop Overview (Barton George), July 19, 2012.
Barton George interviewed at OSCON 2012, July 19, 2012
“Precise Pangolin” - was code name for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which the first XPS 13 developer edition launched with)
Names of months

This interview was done on December 12th, 2022.

Special Guest: Barton George.

Episode 391: Anton Grishko on managing Cloud Costs with FinOps

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon is joined by Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at ProfiSea Labs and they discuss DevOps adoption and the rise of FinOps. Plus, Anton offers practical tips on implementing FinOps and reducing your cloud spend.

Show Links

Contact Anton

LinkedIn
Email: anton@profisea.com

Special Guest: Anton Grishko.

Sponsored By:

Profisea Labs: Visualize your cloud. Reduce your costs.

Episode 388: The Death of DevOps, with Andrew Clay Shafer

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 07:30:00 +0100

In case you haven't heard, DevOps is dead. Again. To discuss its demise, Coté talks with Andrew Clay Shafer. They talk about a lot more: Andrew's new company, working with executives, sociotechnical systems, Andrew's recent SREcon talk in Amsterdam, and more.

You can also watch the live recording of this episoded, unedited! It has a discussion of Coté's podcast making recommendations at the start.

Check out Andrew and friend's new company, Ergonautic, and, find him in Twitter as @littleidea.

Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 17 May 2022 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot.

Episode Links

NetFoundry replace with live netfoundry.io/sdt
OpenZiti
Zitification
Bootstrapping Trust

Contact Philip

LinkedIn: philipleonardgriffiths
Twitter: @OpenZiggy
Twitter: @ThePGriffiths

Special Guest: Philip Griffiths.

Sponsored By:

NetFoundry: NetFoundry is the originator and leading contributor to the Ziti open source networking projects, and provides all the modules required for zero trust networking as a service.

Episode 346: Ev Kontsevoy with an opinionated approach to secure access

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Ev Kontsevoy the CEO and Cofounder of Teleport. They discuss Ev’s early career, his experience at Mailgun and Teleport’s opinionated approach to providing secure access.

Episode Links:

Contact Ev:

LinkedIn: kontsevoy
Twitter: @kontsevoy

Special Guest: Ev Kontsevoy.

Sponsored By:

Teleport: The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

Episode 336: Michael Wilde on Observability

Software Defined Talk LLC — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:30:00 +0100

This week Brandon interviews Michael Wilde. They discuss Wilde's career progression from Sales Engineer to Account Executive and Honeycomb's approach to Observability. Plus, some thoughts on yoga...

Show Links

Contact Wilde

LinkedIn: michael wilde
Twitter: @michaelwilde

Episode 334: Jordan Tigani on data intensive applications

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:45:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Jordan Tigani, Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. They discuss Jordan's experience at Google building BigQuery and how to use SingleStore to build data intensive applications. Plus, some good stories on caviar and marathon running.

Contact Jordan

Banner Photo Credit

Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.

Sponsored By:

SingleStore: The Database for the Data-Intensive Era

Episode 327: Jack Naglieri on security at scale

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Jack Naglieri, Founder & CEO at Panther Labs. They discuss the challenges of security at scale and the current state of security tools. Plus, we learn how Jack transitioned from Security Analyst to Security Engineer and now CEO.

Links:

Contact Jack:

LinkedIn: jacknaglieri
Twitter: @jack_naglieri
Github: jacknagz

Special Guest: Jack Naglieri.

Episode 308: Developer Relations with Josh Long

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0200

He's one of the best #devrel avocado person I know, so I asked Josh Long all my questions about how #devrel works, plus the
Spring Framework community, of course. Also: why Josh stays up so late.

If you prefer, see the original, video recording.

Special Guest: Josh Long.

Episode 304: John Willis on Deming

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:30:00 +0200

Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming.

Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599

Special Guest: John Willis.

Episode 301: Justin McCarthy on Zero Trust and securing hybrid clouds

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 25 May 2021 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Justin McCarthy the CTO and Co-founder of strongDM and they discuss Zero Trust, securing hybrid clouds and keeping auditors happy. Plus, a few tips on gardening during a pandemic.

Contact Justin

Email: justin@strongdm.com
LinkedIn: justinmccarthy

Sponsored By:

strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Episode 297: Grant Miller from Replicated on delivering and managing Kubernetes apps anywhere

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 04 May 2021 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Grant Miller the CEO of Replicated. They discuss Grant's background, building enterprise software and how to deliver Kubernetes apps anywhere. Plus, Grant tell us what it's really like to be an intern at an investment bank.

Show Links

Contact Grant

Twitter: @GrantM
LinkedIn: grantlmiller
Replicated Demo

Special Guest: Grant Miller.

Episode 279: Squire Earle on securing the Enterprise

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Squire Earle who offers practical advice on how to secure your Enterprise. Plus, Squire shares some personal finance tips and explains how and why he takes mini-retirements.

Show Links

Contact Squire

Sponsor

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

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Special Guest: Squire Earle.

Sponsored By:

strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Episode 278: Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh on becoming Serviceful

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh. They discuss his time in academia, how he got into cloud computing and why he started TriggerMesh. Plus, Sebastien tells us why South Carolina is the OpenStack capital of the world!

Show Links

Contact Sebastien

LinkedIn: sebastiengoasguen
Twitter: @sebgoa

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Special Guest: Sebastien Goasguen.

Sponsored By:

Episode 268: Drew Firment on teaching the world to cloud

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Drew Firment from A Cloud Guru. They discuss Drew's career, how Capital One embraced the cloud and A Cloud Guru's mission to teach the world to cloud. Plus, Drew offers advice on deciding which cloud certifications to get first.

Show links

Contact Drew

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Special Guest: Drew Firment.

Episode 266: Dan Balcauski on sabbaticals, consulting and reducing product churn.

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Dan Balcauski from Product Tranquility. They discuss Dan's mid-career "mini retirement", what it's like to be a consultant and some strategies for B2B companies to reduce churn. Plus, Dan shares two of the most interesting places he visited on his trip around the world.

Show links

Contact Dan

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Special Guest: Dan Balcauski.

Episode 261: Arnav Hiray on High School, Tech and Debate

Software Defined Talk LLC — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Arnav Hiray from Stony Point High School. Arnav is an accomplished High School Senior who has a passion for learning and technology. They discuss what it's like to go to High School during a pandemic, Arnav's tech projects and Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Plus, Arnav tells us why he joined the IB Diploma Programme.

Show Links

Contact Arnav

LinkedIn: Arnav Hiray

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Special Guest: Arnav Hiray .

Episode 259: Michael Levan on Developer Relations, Go Programming and Code Quality.

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Michael Levan from Octopus Deploy. They discuss developer relations, Go Programming and Code Quality. Plus, Michael offers some tips for lighting your home office.

Show Links

Michael on the Web

Special Guest: Michael Levan.

Sponsored By:

Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.

Episode 254: Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Alexandra Martinez and they discuss the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, API Design and ProstDev. Plus, Alexandra recommends the best tacos in Monterrey, Mexico.

Show links

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Special Guest: Alexandra N. Martinez.

Episode 250: Jana Werner, a Head of Transformation

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:45:00 +0200

Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization.

This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software.

Check out the paper and Jana in LinkedIn. Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform.

Special Guest: Jana Werner.

Episode 247: Richard Seroter on App Modernization

Software Defined Talk LLC — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:30:00 +0200

On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger.

Mentioned on the Show

Richard joins Google

Richard on the web

Blog: Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
Twitter: @rseroter
LinkedIn: seroter

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Special Guest: Richard Seroter.

Episode 244: Kylie Grenier on Digital Transformation

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology. They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job.

Kylie on the web

Twitter: @CurrentKylie
LinkedIn: kyliegrenier

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Special Guest: Kylie Grenier.

Episode 242: Brian Gracely on OpenShift

Software Defined Talk LLC — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:30:00 +0200

On this episode Brandon interviews Brian Gracely from Red Hat. They discuss Brian's early career at Cisco, his experience with OpenStack, why he joined Red Hat and what's happening with OpenShift. Plus, Brian tells us what it's like to be a VP of Product at a startup and recommends some College Football Podcasts to get us through the off season.

Mentioned on the Show

OpenShift

Brian on the web

Podcast: The Cloudcast
Twitter: @bgracely
LinkedIn: briangracely

Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Episode 240: Todd Gardner on building Web Apps with JavaScript

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS. They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you...

Show Links

Contact Todd

Twitter: @toddhgardner
Company: TrackJS
Latest Project: Request Metrics
Email: todd@trackjs.com
Personal Website: todd.mn

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Special Guest: Todd Gardner.

Episode 238: Shannon Williams on Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs. They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain.

Contact Shannon:

Twitter: smw355
LinkedIn: smw355

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash

Special Guest: Shannon Williams.

Episode 236: Margaret Staples from Twilio on Building Games, Dev Evangelism and Owls.

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest.

Margaret on the Web:

TwilioQuest

Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash

Special Guest: Margaret Staples.

Episode 228: Professor Jeremy Hajek on IT Education

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:30:00 +0200

Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech about what it's like to teach Information Technology in today's rapidy changing IT landscape. Plus, we offer advice to new grads on how to get a job and what cloud certifications are most valuable.

Jermey's Links:

Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash

Special Guest: Jeremy Hajek.

Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:30:00 +0200

This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure. They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies.

Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash

Special Guest: Justin Garrison .

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

Software Defined Talk LLC — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 06:30:00 +0100

Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet.

Links:

Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash

Special Guest: Miles Matthias.

Episode 211: Adam Jacob on Open Source

Software Defined Talk LLC — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0100

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

Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews.

Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview

Software Defined Talk LLC — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0100

Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.

Connect with Jake:

For more interview like this subscribe to Software Defined Interviews.

Special Guest: Jake Moilanen .

Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google

Software Defined Talk LLC — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0200

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more conversations like this one.

Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup.

Links:

Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.