Software Defined Talk

Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads. The Rundown VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’ Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic I have never see...

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 ProstDev MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Contact Alexandra Image Credit Special Guest: Alexandra N. Martinez.

This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…? The Rundown IPOs the Palantir IPO mission statement is an amazing artifact . Software Developer Tools Company JFrog Adds to Tech IPO Rush . Asana files to go public via direct listing . Snowflake files for IPO, taking on...

Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs. The Rundown Oracle and Tik Tok? Oracle interested in buying TikTok: report Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations Amazon invests in Rackspace? Amazon reportedly eyes Rackspace minority stake Exclusive: Amazo...

We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars. The Rundown Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store TikTok Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to...

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 hea...

The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap. The Rundown Friend us and follow SDT on Twitch: sdtpodcat New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings: Re...

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube. The Rundown Google Next Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough' BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise Rackspace Rackspace IPO S1 Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud...

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: @rser...

We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files. Mood board: I read a lot of Wikipedia when I should be working After all this, time people probably think that whatever you’re doing is “working.” Did you respond with an emoji thumbs-up? I read the email. Thought about it for a few hours. Then...

Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers. Mood board: They got money, kicking out the Nazis Have you tried saying it louder? It came out fine. The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms. Long form commercials. Webinar as conference. Sitting in a Zoom. People don’t want...

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 Image credit Special Guest: K...

Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly. Mood board: One How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet? I got the Call Recorder! Brand Police. You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing. Dunning Keurig Yeet your email. I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it. People just throwing tickets into the win...

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 Solid Verbal The Andy Staples...

Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries. Mood board: I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles. I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did...

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 Lemon OVHCloud Contact Todd Twitter: @toddhgardner Company: TrackJS Latest Project: Reques...

We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore. Mood board: Is that guacamole talk Amazon approved? Why don’t you listen to a few episodes? “What generation did they hav...

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...

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online. Mood board: Sounds normal for now. It was kinda cool, kinda sad. Covered in yoke. We just had to speed test it out. Katamari Damacy M&A. I hate network monitoring, shut it all down! The ProductTK. 7G. What’s the plural of Kubernetes? Managers are...

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: @dead_lugosi Github: mstaples LinkedIn: Margaret Staples TwilioQuest TwilioQuest @TwilioQuest Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash Special Guest: Margaret Staples.

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules. Mood board: “The triumphant return to the home office. “ Net Ninety. Software Stockholm Syndrome. Office Mail 360 Whatever. I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy. I never read those emails. I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter. Neck-deep in archaic...

We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back! Moodboard: 3rd kids and pandemics Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”) It’s all just a spatula. Downwardness. You should talk less....

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big. The Rundown Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab More Amazon AWS open sources cloud de...

AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam. The Rundown Tech Giant Earnings AWS tops $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time Microsoft Azure update The Immunity of the Tech Giant The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here Backblaze challenges AW...

Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam. The Rundown Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome Chef Updates Tool...