Coté

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.

Episode 13: The changing nature of open source & Loco Moco, with Barton George

July 31st, 2016  |  16 mins 59 secs

dell, lordsofcomputing, open source, s1p, s1p2016

The victory of open source in the infrastructure software space. Plus, crazy Hawaiian food.

Episode 12: Introducing cloud at Express Scripts, with Brian Gregory

April 25th, 2016  |  47 mins 49 secs

cases, lordsofcomputing

Launching the cloud native strategy at Express Scripts International.

Episode 11: How do we do things we would never, ordinarily do?

January 31st, 2016  |  52 mins 24 secs

allstate, cases

Lessons learned from almost a year of helping transform IT at Allstate.

Episode 10: Doing the DevOps at National Instruments and BazaarVoice, talking with Ernest Mueller

December 1st, 2015  |  47 mins 46 secs

cases

Ernest Mueller has worked helped introduce DevOps in several organizations and has been talking about those stories at two companies he’s worked for, National Instruments and BazaarVoice. Matt and Coté hear these stories (mostly at National Instruments) and we discuss how Ernest and others helped transform these companies to the new way.

Episode 9: The life of microservices in the F500

December 1st, 2015  |  35 mins 4 secs

cases, lordofcomputing, microservices

Introducing microservices into large organizations.

Episode 8: Transforming how the US government does software, Diego Lapiduz

September 30th, 2015  |  47 mins 2 secs

18f, cases, government, lordofcomputing

Matt and Coté talk with Diego Lapiduz who works in the GSA’s 18F organization helping government agencies develop their software in new, more agile and cloud-driven ways.

Episode 7: Getting beyond "the comfort of the number."

September 16th, 2015  |  1 hr 5 mins

lordofcomputing

The problems with transforming how a large company uses IT.