Software Defined Talk

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe . Latest issues: Mood board: Coté is gobsmacked by slides. Let’s turn these earnings upside down. It’s no...

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe . Relevant to your interests The...

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey. Mood board: Stroke City. QBR times four. Travel costs. We need a better word than “politics.” Corporate virtue signaling. Never ask anything. There’s going to be Wern...

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to s...

"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is. Mood board: Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots. We can educate Coté. Learning from each other, the more you know! There’s a lot of kube shit. Non-subjug...

The mystery of the 2,000 Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk. Mood board: The East India Company and Kodak I just want your best 5 hours. Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes. I’m in for a panel. I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting. Ten year journey with billions of...

Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe ! Go to buttondown.email/cote or cote.io/newsletter and do it! Mood board: It’s probably more of a figurative figura...

Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe ! Relevant to your interests GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later Clo...

The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe ! Mood board: The Christmas Greenwich Meantime. The Salary Vortex. Podcast Google Alert. Overnight he is growing 7 inches. Throwing fish at a growing seal. I want to be 63. We’...

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter . People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe ! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new...

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! And check out his other book that this guy likes . Relevant to your interests State of DevOps Report with Coté’s notes “ The proportion...

This week, the title says it all. Mood board: Jandels and togs That’s why they call it The Lucky Country. Decoding “Fly-Wheel.” 1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done. Unlocking value. It’s always fun to see value created. I bet they got RBAC. The Funny Name Startup Strategy to Success. Brandon looks at The Business End. The Platform of the Future. Brisket for the last Fortune 500. It’s...

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show. SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.” Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! And check out his other book that this guy likes . Relevant to your interests Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx VMware says...

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing. Mood board: You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida? I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney. Hey Google, where are my keys? We’re driving off hosts at this point Herbalife. Funny logs. Was it real money? It’s probably cheaper than severance. I am no...

Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! And check out his other book that this guy likes . Mood board: Have either of you ever eaten dog meat? He easily slides into meataterian. Skype would be terrible if it weren’t so great! Follow the foot-stones Going up the well I like dogs, what I don’t like is additional responsibility. My life is mostly avoiding...

Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft. There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the eating management and the terrors of European fry condiment management. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! And check out his other book that this guy likes . Moodboard: I’m making my way to the microphone. T...

It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells. Mood board: CI/CD is this podcast’s VDI. “Dude, I’ll read.” It’s hot here. Did those clothing-optional vegan hippies invite themselves over to your room a lot? Ruled b...

There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastructure software is probably a bad idea. Don’t @ us. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! Mood Board: Evil Hodor is cancelled. Must be this short to ride free. The full mullet of monitoring. There is no nuance to...

With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep...

SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business” How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene. Sponsors Solarwinds Loggly This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . When there is a...

Drink your own dog food No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. 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 p...

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. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap ! Also: Pretty hard stop...

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. Also: Wacky tobaccy Seattle Smell Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize...

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! Relevant to your interests Open-Source ‘Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins Over Skeptics Reporter's Notebook: Trees, fiber, petition The boldest WWDC move: Sign In with...

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. Hey! Want to get Coté’s book, a collection of writing on DevOps, agile, and THE DIGITAL? Go to leanpub.com/digitalwtf and use the code SDT to get $20 off Digital WTF , so $5 total. And, if you w...