DiscoPosse Podcast

John Price joined the show for a very interesting discussion that spans his career in technology.  John shares how he went from technologist to a first time author, and the continued progression to where he is today.  This will be a must-listen for anyone in a technology role and may open some eyes on what the real value of becoming an author is.  Thank you to John for sharing some extremely helpf...

This is part 2 of a very interesting chat with Rory Wheeler ( http://justroarcommunications.com ) that continues into how he performed for President Obama, made the move to change directions in career, and now relaunched a new venture.  

There is magic and science in everything we do.  Rory Wheeler ( http://justroarcommunications.com ) joins me for an enjoyable and informative discussion that will take you in many directions covering behaviours, marketing, career development, and much more.  This is the first of a two part discussion.  Enjoy! 

Chris Williams (aka @mistwire) works as an Enterprise Cloud Consultant for GreenPages, helping customer design the next generation of Public & Private Cloud, specializing in AWS and VMware.  He is an active community member, helping to run  VTUG ,  AWS-PUG  and contributes to  vBrownBag .   This discussion covers some insightful and proven techniques that have led to the growth of the AWS Portsmou...

John Troyer is well known among the VMware community as the creator of what may be the most widely known technology advocacy communities known as #vExpert during his time at VMware.  Now, as co-founder of Tech Reckoning, John shares insights into the distinct challenges of influencer marketing and technology community health as a whole.  This discussion will leave you asking some deep questions yo...

Join Drew Conry-Murray of the Packet Pushers team as we discuss audience engagement through content in blogging, podcasting, speaking, and more.  Drew brings a lot of great tips to help you learn to measure your audience and bring more of your voice to your content.  

Join us for a very exciting and open discussion on the conundrum of personal career advancement in engineering, work/life balance, being an engineer manager, startup challenges and more.  Charity brings an honest voice from experience to the show and this will be a must-listen, especially if you're near to the software industry.

Conrad Ramos shares insightful tips on how changing careers can also introduce new challenges.  We talk about the move from being an IT consumer to an IT architect, the reality of impostor syndrome, and also lots of great tips on how to effectively collaborate while working remotely.  

What does it take to become a professional podcaster? What did the journey look like from part time to full time podcasting and consulting?  Find out this and much more as Ethan Banks of the Packet Pushers joins me for a fun conversation that is a must-listen for anyone either in tech or in any entrepreneurial role.  Lots of great lessons and fun stories in here. 

This podcast shares amazing tips that will take your productivity to the next level.  James Green shares productivity tips and explores how virtual assistants are already affordable for you, today.  Hear about practical and real ways to bring yourself to the next level with for both day-to-day productivity and with moving to a 10x version of yourself with virtual assistants and more. 

Fresh off of the IBM Innovate event, this episode shares some of the event highlights and also explores the value and power of the customer story.  This the the "Why?" of any technology solution. 

Join Yadin Porter de Leon and Eric Wright for a discussion on VMworld, the vTrailMap initiative, how to get the most out of your VMworld visit and much more. 

Join Simon Law of Oracle Ravello (@RavelloSystems) as we discuss the interesting ways in which IT evolution triggered the value of the Oracle Ravello platform plus a great discussion on progression and growth in IT careers thanks to learning and automation.  

A personal podcast that asks you what brings you joy, and how I find joy with three very simple questions in my work and life.  Big thanks to Alastair Cooke for his post on this subject  http://demitasse.co.nz/2018/07/what-brings-you-joy-do-more-of-that/  and to Ray Dalio for his phenomenal book and work around Principles of Life and Work http://principles.com      

Joe Emison, aptly named a serial technical co-founder, shares some great insights into the art of paying it forward, sharing knowledge, and much more.  This one will leave you thinking and offers some solid foresight into what the next generation of startup founders and disruptors is going to be.  

GC On-Demand is back and we have a run of new content coming!  Join host Eric Wright for a discussion on mentoring, and a new program being developed to advance the mentoring community through work at RapidMatter.io 

Rene Van Den Bedem and I unpack the key announcements from VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas. Listen in as we explore very interesting industry and field experience around the private cloud and container ecosystem and our thoughts on the VMware Cloud on AWS offering as well as the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) which was announced at the event. 

Join Melissa (@vmiss33) , VCDX236, in a discussion about the journey to become an IT architect and exploring her new book available at http://itarchitectjourney.com  geared towards helping IT practitioners make the leap to becoming IT architects. 

Find out why we are calling for the death of configuration management in this very informative and important chat with Rob Hirschfeld.  The shift in thinking about infrastructure at all layers is changing the way we do Ops...for good reason. 

This fun chat expands on what we started talking about in episode 42 ( http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/ep-42-spiraling-ops-debt-sre-solutions-and-rackn-chat-with-rob-hirschfeld-zehicle/ ) as we dive into the challenges and potential solutions for thinking and acting with the SRE approach. Big thansk to Rob Hirschfeld from @RackN for sharing his thoughts and experiences from the field on this very...

Join this exciting chat with Madhura Maskasky as we discuss the recent news from Platform9 as well as the challenges that are solved by delivering open source solutions as a service and what the next challenges are for today's evolving enterprise IT organizations. 

Join me for a bit of a personal story about a terrible travel day that gave me some good thoughts about the challenges of the 10X engineer.  This also introduces something which i've called the Technology Domestique.  Hope you enjoy the story!

Join us as we continue our conversation with Randy Shoup with a focus on the people and process side of building out successful development and product teams. Randy shares tips and proven techniques that have helped him to build and support successfuly distributed teams, and to reach goals that many of the product developers and product managers have been hoping to get to as we move further in the...

Randy Shoup joins the GCOD for a very informative and candid chat on development velocity, the DevOps goal, finding traction, and how he has led teams to success with a variety of products and platforms.  Randy is working on some very intereseting things at StitchFix, and brings a storied career and set of experiences to the conversation.  Big thanks to Randy for sharing what could be some of the...

We bring back Angelo Luciani to talk about the product and process approach to building out IT communities and influencer programs.  With all of the ways available to host an IT community, what should community leaders be looking at to help bring their community together both online and in-person.