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Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report Michael is investigating Liberating Structures Mark doesn't know what a Clementine is Alison gets in on the ground floor on a new FinOps project Subscribe to our new Newsletter! Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Who is Alison Mc...

Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence Mark has been fiddling around with Kit and automation for emails for our newsletter. Chris is says you can only last a week without a dishwasher Michael calls people Rain Man. Hasn't even seen it. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! Stay informed about new episo...

We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! . Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Michael has been feeling o...

We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! . Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Michael is still pale after a weekend in the sun. He didn't shed a tear after...

We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job. Michael prepares for putting together an event on developer experience Sam helps merge 2 companies together RIP duolingo bird Who is Sam Jones ? loosely... Frontend Dev -> Team Lead @ game...

We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like. Michael's office refurb continues, as he trades signed music memorabilia for music speakers The great rebrand is in the works Lenny s...

Michael keeps up with his "listen to 100 albums in a year" resolution. Mark has a weights rack of shame. Chris fails dry Jan by a matter of days. There's a 1% chance we'll all be mush anyway. GIVE US FEEDBACK! Do this form, it will take 4 mins Chris Hunter Working in government on a project with other consultancies also contributing. Are they in competition? Lovely personal github readme Quickfire...

Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time. Michael is on the super stouts Marie is doing dry "couple-of-days" What's a plosion? Michael has over-researched micophones Is Feng-Shui a load of nonsense? Or Real? Marie rubbishes Mark's new years resolution Who is Marie Wigmore ? Independent contractor for over 3 decades, currentl...

What does James do? Is Sky a big company? What's your favourite file format to read from? Favourite format of book to digest? East London vs. West London What even is Burns Night? Deep fried battered scottish things James is dropping tables like it's hot... in the first week Big Topic Data. Big Data. HUGE Data. What's it like to leave after more than 10 years at one company? Why the change? Why no...

After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here! CES 2025 has come and been Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work I want to charge my phone in 5 econds Are we dry January-ing? No. Resolutions: Mark will play more darts Michael will listen to political podcasts and 2 new albums a week Georgia will go to places where people will help us meet goals What's it like bei...

We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more Lenny Visits Wayde Michael finishes the last Espresso Martini Mouse JP sipps a duvel, not a duv-elle We've got some quickfire questions for JP on all things recuitment. Does github activity matter? How many interviews is too many interviews? What's your go-to i...

It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it. Ian gives us his tooling preferences and why. Cynic to advocate for public cloud The phones are ringing off the hooks, thanks to Ian Reeves! What do we think of DHH? Should you run your own stuff, or pay for SaaS? Kim Jung Un's inner SuperHero Big Topics Data Center Repatriation. Why DHH moved 37signals from public cloud to...

We're still here for number 4. We add some jingles and an intro. Michael gets third party confirmation that he's old All the guests have mugged us off, so it's just Michael and I Mark predicts the rise of AI Santa Mark publishes the show too early and forgets about the shownotes and jingles first time round Michael scours the news with a " 2 years or older " filter on. Social Media sites Big Topic...

We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups. Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic DIY Dishwasher APIs Everyone hates JFrog, but not as much as Mark We've got Jarvis at home! Don't touch the mirror Smart Homes is our big topic Do we trust Eero? Do we trust China? Home experiments. Having guests in your smart home. Never Mind the AI-Bu...

We're back for episode two! We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week. Mitan tells us about his career break. We chat about AI tools. Mark reviews the last recommendations, badly. Michael has put some effort into the news. Mitan was gonna write his recommendations down but his ADHD got the better of him this time. Big topics The Career Break. Why? Why now? What are you doing? Jou...

We're live! How early is too early for the Christmas Tree? How many plugs is the right number of plugs for your workspace? Who even are these people? Imposter syndrome is our big topic Who are these psychpaths that don't get imposter syndrome? Newsy stuff Excel turns 40, with a few bloopers of usage in that time Google has racked up $2.5 decillion of fines in Russia UK Gov website launches an AI c...