Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten?
With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also
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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Episode 117: Who is the CISO?
With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylandtx) from the CISO Exec Network
Episode 121: Does GDPR work? Cisco/AppDynamics, Solarwinds, & Honeycomb
Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews
Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques, & Amazon HQ2
Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we
Episode 120: RedHat buys CoreOS, Heptio DOES NOT have a distro - the kubernetes kids are over their Christmas hangovers
Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix
Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off, & Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic
It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also
Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring & Compliance
This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices. Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods
Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds
Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box?
Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm.
Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which
Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT, & cloud spending
Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip
WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG
This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, about
Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.”
This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and
Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS, & Thor
Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Coté found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend
Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio - Software Defined Interviews
Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort
Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook
We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo
Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this”
Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the
Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management
It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area,
Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!
“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.” We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security
Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”
Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with
Episode 135: Coté's magical, mystery mortgage application workflow, or, "serverless: WTAFF?!"
We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless
