Software Defined Interviews

Episode 29: DevOps at cloud.gov, security, compliance, & cities that start with "A"

May 25th, 2017  |  14 mins 19 secs

cloud foundry, cloud-native, cloud.gov, devopsdays, devopsdaysaustin

At DevOpsDays Austin 2017, Barton George and I talk with Diego Lapiduz about his experience introducing and managing a cloud platform for the US government and, now, his work at Pivotal.

Episode 28: GSD'ing your way to cloud-native, with Brian Gregory

May 24th, 2017  |  59 mins 28 secs

Just under a year later, Brian Gregory is back to tell us how changing over Express Script's approach to software is doing. As ever, it's mostly about meat-ware and Brian gives good, casual overview of management tactics to get everyone to the seemingly simple state of doing the right thing.

Episode 27: The arrogance of making sure you get what you want

May 19th, 2017  |  51 mins 9 secs

Coté doesn't like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.

Episode 26: Getting over resistance to change

May 16th, 2017  |  57 mins 49 secs

allstate, cases, change, digital transformation, government, management

Matt Curry is back! In this episode recorded at OSCON 2017, we discuss the problems with getting people to change, from staff to management, private sector and government.

Episode 25: John Willis on DevOps, inclusion, burn-out, and biz dev

May 11th, 2017  |  13 mins 9 secs

burgers, devops, dodaustin, john willis

Barton George and I talk with John Willis at DevOpsDays Austin 2017.

Episode 24: Oil and waffles

April 27th, 2017  |  50 mins 3 secs

avocado, emacs, oil

We hear about the days when Charles was drilling for oil. Also, waffles: "I suffered years of floppy-waffles."

Episode 23: “I don’t have a horse or gun.” Or: We were born in Austin. Or: “you may all go to hell. I am going to Texas.”

April 11th, 2017  |  38 mins 18 secs

migas, tacos, texas

When you travel, people have a lot of thoughts about Texas.

Episode 22: The Regular Show, Apple’s problem’s, Enterprise tech news blows

March 24th, 2017  |  48 mins 32 secs

Charles & Coté reboot their old podcast about regular things. Also, a rant on photo management in Apple-land and how terrible enterprise IT news it. Plus, upcoming topics.

Episode 21: Biz Dev, Defining an application, the atheist eagle scout, with JJ Asghar

February 11th, 2017  |  51 mins 14 secs

austin, boy scouts, chef, cloud

Having worked in cloud since before cloud, JJ and I talk about what companies are using various cloud things for. We also discuss the conceptual history of cloud, and what exactly he does as a "business development" person at Chef.

Episode 20: Reading tech company financials, with Rachel Stephens

February 7th, 2017  |  6 mins 56 secs

financials, redmonk

What's up with all those cash numbers in quarterly reports, and what's the deal with "analyst expectations"? In this brief episode I talk with RedMonk's Rachel Stephens to get some quick tips on what to do with all that stuff.

Episode 19: Computers are easy. Humans are Hard. With Bridget Kromhout

January 27th, 2017  |  31 mins 12 secs

bridget kromhout, culture, devops, meatware, process

We discuss all the human and process changes needed to do good things with computers.

Episode 18: Reactive applications, with Josh Long

January 27th, 2017  |  25 mins 34 secs

josh long, pivotal, programming, reactive, spring, spring boot

Josh Long and I discuss “reactive programming."

Episode 17: Ignoring bad code on purpose

December 13th, 2016  |  11 mins 22 secs

bad code, legacy, project management, technical debt

Some reasons people would keep bad code, how management should think through it, and then some options for coping as needed.

Episode 16: Pair programing doesn't stink

November 3rd, 2016  |  7 mins 8 secs

cases, hcsc, kansas city, pair programming, pairing

Somewhere around just 20% of people do pair programming. It seems to be an incredibly effective technique, according to people who follow it. I go over some of those reasons and micro case studies of organizations having success with pair programming. It seems like the right thing to do.

Episode 15: Getting executives to fail fast

November 2nd, 2016  |  6 mins 23 secs

change management, fail fast, leadership, small batches

The idea of “failing fast” is popular in DevOps and agile think. That sounds like the exact opposite of what managers at large organizations would like to do. How do you get them to feel all warm and fuzzy about it? Here’s the top three tactics I’ve seen work.

Episode 14: Building a cloud in 30 minutes, metrics are a distraction

August 2nd, 2016  |  49 mins 20 secs

allstate, cases, lordofcomputing, s1p, s1p2016

Managing multiple CI/CD pipelines, and random digital transformation at Allstate.