Software Defined Interviews
Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like
Episodes
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Episode 89: How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor Farcic
December 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution of DevOps, project managing a content creation engine of one, and the virtues of imperfection. Also, the strategic avoidance of asking for directions, or, really, talking with people in general.
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Episode 88: Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser
November 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
Sure, we talk about platform engineering, but more importantly, business cards.
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Episode 87: Platform Engineering, AI, and Community - Whitney's KubeCon NA 2024 Adventures
November 25th, 2024 | 48 mins 6 secs
Whitney is back from KubeCon and shares what she saw. Topics include: platform engineering, AI integration with Kubernetes, and community engagement.
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Episode 86: Open Source Money Ethics, How Analysts use AI, What Even is an Industry Analyst, and Advanced Chicken Nugget Diplomacy, with Rachel Stephens
November 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being an industry analyst.
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Episode 85: Kubernetes Cost Controls and Washing Horse Blankets, with Phil Andrews
October 31st, 2024 | 53 mins 33 secs
Whitney and talk with Phil Andrews, field CTO at Cast AI, cost management and optimization, the nuances of Kubernetes, coin-operated laundromats, and farm life.
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Episode 84: Tech recruiting from both sides of the table, with Sidney Miller
October 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
Whitney and Coté talk with Sidney Miller about tech recruitment. They talk a lot about the process from both sides: people hiring and people looking for jobs. Plus, some thoughts on working at Neiman Marcus.
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Episode 83: Whitney Lee
October 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 26 mins
Whitney Lee's career path has been all over the place, from artist, wedding photographer, waiter, and now world-renowned devrel in the cloud native world.
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Misaligned Incentives Episode 4: You get what you pay for - compensating tech staff is often done poorly
July 17th, 2020 | 50 mins 57 secs
We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department ("developers," etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you're an IT person and like money.
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Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear
July 6th, 2020 | 38 mins 38 secs
People in large organizations avoid improving for improving's sake. They're very rarely proactive in transforming. Instead, it seems that management in most large organizations only act, and change, when they fear competition and failure. "Everyone" knows this is a bad strategy, and yet "everyone" does it. Perhaps we should embrace that behavior, or at least be empathetic, and figure out how to work with it.
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Episode 2: Outsourcing, SIs, and other "others"
October 31st, 2019 | 58 mins 1 sec
We discuss outsourcing IT.
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Misaligned Incentives Episode 1: Who forget to invite "The Business," to this kubernetes PoC?
September 11th, 2019 | 44 mins 21 secs
Join Rick and I as we try to find this elusive thing called "The Business." We lay out a theory we've been talking about: while IT has been improving or, at least, can improve, the business side of the house isn't showing up to do anything with CLOUD and AGILE and THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION.
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Monolithic Transformation
September 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 32 mins
The cliche we all recite is that technology isn’t the problem, culture is. Put another way, if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from enterprises whose meat now smells proper.
Given at Agile Scotland, August 2019.
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Episode 82: Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations
July 9th, 2019 | 59 mins 12 secs
Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO of the CNCF. We discuss how he got into open source, what it's like to work at Twitter and how he helped start the CNCF. Plus, Chris gives us an overview of the different kinds of CNCF projects and offers advice on how to get started with Kubernetes.
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Episode 81: Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore
April 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 14 mins
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive.
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Episode 80: Jeff Meyerson on starting the Software Engineering Daily Podcast
February 11th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
Jeff Meyerson is the host of Software Engineering Daily. We talk about on his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for developers.
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Episode 79: Version control, DevOps, Code Reviews, Semantic Merging, Spanish Startups, & Plastic SCM
January 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
Version control has changed a lot over the past 15 years: we’ve moved from a centralized to a distributed model at the basic level. But the practices people follow have changed and grown as new methodologies like DevOps and continuous delivery have relied on version control for operational stability and reliability. In this interview, Coté talks with Plastic SCM’s Pablo Santos to get the low-down and some tips on doing version control better. We also discuss Plastic SCM and how their approach to semantic merging and mergebot-driven automation addresses version control toil.