{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Software Defined Interviews","home_page_url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com","feed_url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/json","description":"Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like","_fireside":{"subtitle":"Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like","pubdate":"2020-07-17T05:00:00.000-05:00","explicit":true,"copyright":"2024 by Software Defined Talk","owner":"Software Defined Talk","image":"https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/images/7/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/cover.jpg?v=1"},"items":[{"id":"efb05656-d9ef-4fe7-b583-3c49d929fb6c","title":"Misaligned Incentives Episode 4: You get what you pay for - compensating tech staff is often done poorly","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ma4","content_text":"    &lt;p&gt;We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department (&amp;quot;developers,&amp;quot; etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you&amp;#39;re an IT person and like money.&lt;/p&gt;\n\n\nThere's other types of comp. then money, obviously, and those are fine too. In particular, we discuss participation in open source and more recognition. But, still: money is the best.\n      ","content_html":"<pre><code>    &lt;p&gt;We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department (&amp;quot;developers,&amp;quot; etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you&amp;#39;re an IT person and like money.&lt;/p&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>There&#39;s other types of comp. then money, obviously, and those are fine too. In particular, we discuss participation in open source and more recognition. But, still: money is the best.</p>\n      ","summary":"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.","date_published":"2020-07-17T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/bfa78677-6e07-4e0c-bc8c-6fe4230e3009.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26547060,"duration_in_seconds":3057}]},{"id":"b4342209-9f0d-43b3-ab9c-1400d9305d63","title":"Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ma3","content_text":"    &lt;p&gt;People in large organizations avoid improving for improving&amp;#39;s sake. They&amp;#39;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. &amp;quot;Everyone&amp;quot; knows this is a bad strategy, and yet &amp;quot;everyone&amp;quot; does it. Perhaps we should embrace that behavior, or at least be empathetic, and figure out how to work with it.&lt;/p&gt;\n\n\nWe discuss this problem and things to do in this episode.\n\nAlso, we find out why Coté always has bad breath.\n\nMood board:\n\n\n(6:30) - The daily, normal fears are going to drive what a business does more than large, one-off crises.\nIf your inventory is on an AS/400, then you're in trouble.\nA chaos monkey for business, or, training for the unexpected.\n\"When there's not a crisis, every penny is squeezed out of technology.\"\nOutsourcing, but the harmful type.\nHold your customers close, know your evolving storefront.\nNow, software is the primary storefront.\nTo improve, you must have an enemy.\n(20:51) \"If you're trying to modernize, do this 'digital transformation,' it has to come from a place of an existential problem.\"\n(21:26) To prepare for a major disruption, you have to prepare for a bunch of minor, incremental disruptions. You have to sell [the return] on paying for change.\n(25:51) If you want to justify paying for continuous delivery, you have to find a problem to solve.\n(27:41) They're bean counters, so just count the beans for them - just give them some beans and they're happy.\n(28:58) As technologist, our views on revenue are not considered important or valid.\n(29:21) Fear and loss are often easier to quantify, e.g., \"if the database goes down, the business halts, and we loose millions a minute.\" Growth potential is harder to quantify and pitch, so we often ask for money based on fear and loss.\n(29:36) \"Even though I think about revenue streams, I've never been taken as seriously when I talk about them, as when I talk about fear.\"\nFinding people outside of IT that care about software, like, in \"the business.\"\n(32:55) The only reason for technical agility, is business agility.\n(33:44) If you do live through a crisis, try to internalize your failure to prepare so you only learn once from crisis, not again and again.\n(35:33) The Business needs the fear, and then needs to ask IT to help with some optimistic technology action...cause no one's gonna believe IT.\n\n      ","content_html":"<pre><code>    &lt;p&gt;People in large organizations avoid improving for improving&amp;#39;s sake. They&amp;#39;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. &amp;quot;Everyone&amp;quot; knows this is a bad strategy, and yet &amp;quot;everyone&amp;quot; does it. Perhaps we should embrace that behavior, or at least be empathetic, and figure out how to work with it.&lt;/p&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>We discuss this problem and things to do in this episode.</p>\n\n<p>Also, we find out why Coté always has bad breath.</p>\n\n<p>Mood board:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>(6:30) - The daily, normal fears are going to drive what a business does more than large, one-off crises.</li>\n<li>If your inventory is on an AS/400, then you&#39;re in trouble.</li>\n<li>A chaos monkey for business, or, training for the unexpected.</li>\n<li>&quot;When there&#39;s not a crisis, every penny is squeezed out of technology.&quot;</li>\n<li>Outsourcing, but the harmful type.</li>\n<li>Hold your customers close, know your evolving storefront.</li>\n<li>Now, software is the primary storefront.</li>\n<li>To improve, you must have an enemy.</li>\n<li>(20:51) &quot;If you&#39;re trying to modernize, do this &#39;digital transformation,&#39; it has to come from a place of an existential problem.&quot;</li>\n<li>(21:26) To prepare for a major disruption, you have to prepare for a bunch of minor, incremental disruptions. You have to sell [the return] on paying for change.</li>\n<li>(25:51) If you want to justify paying for continuous delivery, you have to find a problem to solve.</li>\n<li>(27:41) They&#39;re bean counters, so just count the beans for them - just give them some beans and they&#39;re happy.</li>\n<li>(28:58) As technologist, our views on revenue are not considered important or valid.</li>\n<li>(29:21) Fear and loss are often easier to quantify, e.g., &quot;if the database goes down, the business halts, and we loose millions a minute.&quot; Growth potential is harder to quantify and pitch, so we often ask for money based on fear and loss.</li>\n<li>(29:36) &quot;Even though I <em>think</em> about revenue streams, I&#39;ve never been taken as seriously when I talk about them, as when I talk about fear.&quot;</li>\n<li>Finding people outside of IT that care about software, like, in &quot;the business.&quot;</li>\n<li>(32:55) The only reason for technical agility, is business agility.</li>\n<li>(33:44) If you do live through a crisis, try to internalize your failure to prepare so you only learn once from crisis, not again and again.</li>\n<li>(35:33) The Business needs the fear, and then needs to ask IT to help with some optimistic technology action...cause no one&#39;s gonna believe IT.</li>\n</ul>\n      ","summary":"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.","date_published":"2020-07-06T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9ceb1ee4-faea-49ef-87f1-771e79266890.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":20631221,"duration_in_seconds":2318}]},{"id":"a70c1173-0deb-4591-afe2-de698ef8cb48","title":"Episode 2: Outsourcing, SIs, and other \"others\"","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ma2","content_text":"    &lt;p&gt;We discuss outsourcing IT.&lt;/p&gt;\n","content_html":"<pre><code>    &lt;p&gt;We discuss outsourcing IT.&lt;/p&gt;\n</code></pre>","summary":"We discuss outsourcing IT.","date_published":"2019-10-31T03:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/16f3bcc8-4f41-4405-a8bc-1dfb316e97dd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29931181,"duration_in_seconds":3481}]},{"id":"b5b11316-7699-493b-9d36-e943c811ba21","title":"Misaligned Incentives Episode 1: Who forget to invite \"The Business,\" to this kubernetes PoC?","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ma1","content_text":"    &lt;p&gt;Journey Through the Business Bottleneck, part 1.&lt;/p&gt;\n\n\nJoin 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.\n\nWhy's this the case? Do toothpaste people have this problem? Outsourcing - that's a treat! And so forth.\n\nHopefully next episode we'll discuss tactics to get people outside of IT interested.\n\nSubscribe at https://misaligned.business\n\nAnd, check out Coté's work in progress book on this topic: https://cote.io/bottleneck/\n      ","content_html":"<pre><code>    &lt;p&gt;Journey Through the Business Bottleneck, part 1.&lt;/p&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Join Rick and I as we try to find this elusive thing called &quot;The Business.&quot; We lay out a theory we&#39;ve been talking about: while IT has been improving or, at least, <em>can</em> improve, the business side of the house isn&#39;t showing up to do anything with CLOUD and AGILE and THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION.</p>\n\n<p>Why&#39;s this the case? Do toothpaste people have this problem? Outsourcing - that&#39;s a treat! And so forth.</p>\n\n<p>Hopefully next episode we&#39;ll discuss tactics to get people outside of IT interested.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe at <a href=\"https://misaligned.business\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://misaligned.business</a></p>\n\n<p>And, check out Coté&#39;s work in progress book on this topic: <a href=\"https://cote.io/bottleneck/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://cote.io/bottleneck/</a></p>\n      ","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-09-11T06:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/1bb2068f-e47a-4eb1-b3b7-e16565554bdd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23512809,"duration_in_seconds":2661}]},{"id":"e2c97ac7-1a8f-4efc-8f27-7e6824f24490","title":"Monolithic Transformation","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ma0","content_text":"    &lt;p&gt;Large organization are desperate to become “tech companies.” They drool at these tech companies ability to grow and change quickly. Despite mastering agile over the past 20 years, IT as a whole is too slow and unreliable. “It’s the culture,” everyone says. Changing culture for a team of 10 people is easy - changing a department of 20,000 developers is another challenge entirely.&lt;/p&gt;\n\n\nBased on case studies and interviews over the past five years, this talk describes how large organizations are getting over that challenge. First, the talk covers moving from a project to a product mindset and the associated practices. Second, it covers how DevOps and cloud platforms enable that product mindset. Third, it goes over how leadership and management change to support this new approach. Finally, the talk catalogs tactics, patterns, and organizational structures that large organizations are using to improve how they do software which leads to improving their business.\n\nThis talk is based on my book Monolithic Transformation (O’Reilly, Feb 2019).\n\nYou can download the slides if you like, and they pop-up as chapter art if your podcast app supports that.\n      ","content_html":"<pre><code>    &lt;p&gt;Large organization are desperate to become “tech companies.” They drool at these tech companies ability to grow and change quickly. Despite mastering agile over the past 20 years, IT as a whole is too slow and unreliable. “It’s the culture,” everyone says. Changing culture for a team of 10 people is easy - changing a department of 20,000 developers is another challenge entirely.&lt;/p&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Based on case studies and interviews over the past five years, this talk describes how large organizations are getting over that challenge. First, the talk covers moving from a project to a product mindset and the associated practices. Second, it covers how DevOps and cloud platforms enable that product mindset. Third, it goes over how leadership and management change to support this new approach. Finally, the talk catalogs tactics, patterns, and organizational structures that large organizations are using to improve how they do software which leads to improving their business.</p>\n\n<p>This talk is based on my book <a href=\"https://pivotal.io/monolithictransformation\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Monolithic Transformation</em></a> (O’Reilly, Feb 2019).</p>\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https://www.slideshare.net/cote/monolithic-transformation-changing-the-culture-of-large-organisations-or-what-to-do-when-your-meatware-stinks\" rel=\"nofollow\">download the slides</a> if you like, and they pop-up as chapter art if your podcast app supports that.</p>\n      ","summary":"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.\r\n\r\nGiven at Agile Scotland, August 2019.","date_published":"2019-09-09T04:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/21e66483-695e-4857-884d-d59e80e093d5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46997267,"duration_in_seconds":5524}]},{"id":"dff5b132-15d1-47af-8c2d-cabf79cd631f","title":"Episode 82: Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/82","content_text":"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.\n\nShow links:\n\n\nHatching Twitter\nGORILLA.BAS\nIBM Extreme Blue\nEclipse Marketplace\nEclipse Foundation\nCNCF Charter\nThe universal data plane API\nUniversal Data Plane API Working Group\n\n\nContact Chris:\n\n\n@cra\nLinkedIn\n\n\nMore Software Defined Talk\n\n\nSubscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast\nSubscribe to Software Defined Talk Podcast\nFollow @SoftwareDefTalk on Twitter\nSend your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!\nJoin us in Slack.\nSpecial Guest: Chris Aniszczyk.","content_html":"<p>Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO of the CNCF. We discuss how he got into open source, what it&#39;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.</p>\n\n<h3>Show links:</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hatching Twitter</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_video_game\" rel=\"nofollow\">GORILLA.BAS</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/employment/extremeblue/\" rel=\"nofollow\">IBM Extreme Blue</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://marketplace.eclipse.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eclipse Marketplace</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/explore.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eclipse Foundation</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/charter.md\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNCF Charter</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://blog.envoyproxy.io/the-universal-data-plane-api-d15cec7a\" rel=\"nofollow\">The universal data plane API</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-H-pQ2mmhBPX_U9pP3mMMUbEpZskxBdEbwd5KlivY4/edit#heading=h.hphw9gdcmb90\" rel=\"nofollow\">Universal Data Plane API Working Group</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3>Contact Chris:</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/cra\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cra</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LinkedIn</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3>More Software Defined Talk</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Subscribe to <a href=\"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Defined Interviews Podcast</a></li>\n<li>Subscribe to <a href=\"https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Defined Talk Podcast</a></li>\n<li>Follow<a href=\"https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk\" rel=\"nofollow\"> @SoftwareDefTalk on Twitter</a></li>\n<li>Send your postal address to <a href=\"mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and we will send you free laptop stickers!</li>\n<li>Join us <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack\" rel=\"nofollow\">in Slack</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Chris Aniszczyk.</p>","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2019-07-09T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/dff5b132-15d1-47af-8c2d-cabf79cd631f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28482290,"duration_in_seconds":3552}]},{"id":"9d6780c5-8c55-4117-a522-ff26f4909c1d","title":"Episode 81: Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81","content_text":"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 &amp; Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive.\n\nLinks\n\n\nGoodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish\nWe need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities\nSustainable Free and Open Source Communities\n\n\nFollow Adam at @adamhjk\n\nCheck out the Software Defined Talk Podcast for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.","content_html":"<p>Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam&#39;s career, what led him to start Chef and Chef&#39;s recent decision to open source 100% of its Software.  Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons &amp; Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive.</p>\n\n<h3>Links</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-ae3355316494\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619\" rel=\"nofollow\">We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://sfosc.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Follow Adam at <a href=\"https://twitter.com/adamhjk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@adamhjk</a></p>\n\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Defined Talk Podcast</a> for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. </p><p>Special Guest: Adam Jacob.</p>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-04-08T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9d6780c5-8c55-4117-a522-ff26f4909c1d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":35853419,"duration_in_seconds":4473}]},{"id":"0b315c26-91cc-4b73-8660-2329bcbdd0e7","title":"Episode 80: Jeff Meyerson on starting the Software Engineering Daily Podcast","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/80","content_text":"Jeff Meyerson is the host of Software Engineering Daily. We talk about his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for software engineers. We also talk about current trends in cloud computing and Jeff recounts his career as professional poker player.\n\nTopics:\n\n\nDarknet Diaries Chartbreakers Episode\nWho Is Michael Ovitz?\n\n\nWhere to find Jeff\n\n\nSoftware Engineering Daily \nJeff Meyerson \n@the_prion\nSpecial Guest: Jeff Meyerson.","content_html":"<p>Jeff Meyerson is the host of <a href=\"https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Engineering Daily</a>. We talk about his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for software engineers. We also talk about current trends in cloud computing and Jeff recounts his career as professional poker player.</p>\n\n<h3>Topics:</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darknet Diaries Chartbreakers Episode</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.audible.com/pd/Who-Is-Michael-Ovitz-Audiobook/B07DJZBDK4\" rel=\"nofollow\">Who Is Michael Ovitz?</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3>Where to find Jeff</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Engineering Daily</a> </li>\n<li><a href=\"https://jeffmeyerson.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Meyerson</a> </li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/the_prion\" rel=\"nofollow\">@the_prion</a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Jeff Meyerson.</p>","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2019-02-11T07:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/0b315c26-91cc-4b73-8660-2329bcbdd0e7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":29993004,"duration_in_seconds":3740}]},{"id":"20826b24-28b9-4172-ab8f-2f2958b4fcf0","title":"Episode 79: Version control, DevOps, Code Reviews, Semantic Merging, Spanish Startups, & Plastic SCM","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/79","content_text":"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.\n\nThis episode is sponsored by Plastic SCM, that is, it’s a paid interview.Special Guest: Pablo Santos.Sponsored By:Plastic SCM: Plastic SCM is a version control to help teams focus on delivering work, one task at a time. Signup today for a 30-day free trial and get a sassy T-Shirt. ","content_html":"<p>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 <a href=\"https://www.plasticscm.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plastic SCM</a>’s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/psluaces\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pablo Santos</a> to get the low-down and some tips on doing version control better. We also discuss <a href=\"https://www.plasticscm.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plastic SCM</a> and how their approach to <a href=\"https://www.semanticmerge.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">semantic merging</a> and mergebot-driven automation addresses version control toil.</p>\n\n<p>This episode is sponsored by <a href=\"https://www.plasticscm.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plastic SCM</a>, that is, it’s a paid interview.</p><p>Special Guest: Pablo Santos.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.plasticscm.com/sdt?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=jingle&amp;utm_campaign=SDT&amp;utm_term=DevOps&amp;utm_content=mergebots\">Plastic SCM</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.plasticscm.com/sdt?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=jingle&amp;utm_campaign=SDT&amp;utm_term=DevOps&amp;utm_content=mergebots\">Plastic SCM is a version control to help teams focus on delivering work, one task at a time. Signup today for a 30-day free trial and get a sassy T-Shirt. </a></li></ul>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-01-15T06:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/20826b24-28b9-4172-ab8f-2f2958b4fcf0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":33978663,"duration_in_seconds":4239}]},{"id":"bdfbc772-f866-43f0-a5d7-30e5020bdcd1","title":"Episode 78: Umair Khan on AI Ops and Cloud Security","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/78","content_text":"Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and Cloud Security.  Umair recently joned Scytale and he explains how the  SPIFFE open soruce project can help secure communication between cloud services.\n\nContact Umiar:\n\n\nLinkedIn\n@UmairMoheet\nWhy I joined Scytale\nSpecial Guest: Umair Khan.","content_html":"<p>Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and Cloud Security.  Umair recently joned <a href=\"https://www.scytale.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scytale</a> and he explains how the  <a href=\"https://spiffe.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SPIFFE open soruce project</a> can help secure communication between cloud services.</p>\n\n<h3>Contact Umiar:</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/khanumair/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LinkedIn</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/UmairMoheet\" rel=\"nofollow\">@UmairMoheet</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://medium.com/@umairmoheet\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why I joined Scytale</a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Umair Khan.</p>","summary":"Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and in Cloud Security. 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We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.  </p>\n\n<p>Connect with Jake:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/moilanen\" rel=\"nofollow\">@moilanen</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemoilanen/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LinkedIn</a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Jake Moilanen.</p>","summary":"Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.  ","date_published":"2018-12-17T05:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/be531315-9f57-48a4-9b57-4cdb156ad33a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":33890891,"duration_in_seconds":4228}]},{"id":"44948e7b-f77a-4a00-b566-466eae968ad2","title":"Episode 76: Zane Rockenbaugh on being the Startup CTO","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/76","content_text":"Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. Most of the time his clients are boostrapping their new compnay and need someone technical who can help build version 1.0. In this episode, we talk about Zane's career and what it's like to be a \"Startup CTO.\" Most importantly, we talk about his experience of taking raw ideas and turning them into real products. \n\nTo work with Zane contact him at Liquid LabsSpecial Guest: Zane Rockenbaugh.","content_html":"<p>Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. Most of the time his clients are boostrapping their new compnay and need someone technical who can help build version 1.0. In this episode, we talk about Zane&#39;s career and what it&#39;s like to be a &quot;Startup CTO.&quot; Most importantly, we talk about his experience of taking raw ideas and turning them into real products. </p>\n\n<p>To work with Zane contact him at <a href=\"https://liquid-labs.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Liquid Labs</a></p><p>Special Guest: Zane Rockenbaugh.</p>","summary":"Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. He helps founders take their idea and turn it into something real. We talk about his career and what it's like to be a \"Startup CTO.\" ","date_published":"2018-11-05T05:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/44948e7b-f77a-4a00-b566-466eae968ad2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":33879936,"duration_in_seconds":4226}]},{"id":"9dd988b8-fefa-40bc-b6ea-c1f8f3a48284","title":"Episode 75: Don't call me an \"evangelist\"","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75","content_text":"Coté talks about his job being an \"evangelist,\" a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. Call it \"developer advocacy,\" \"developer relations,\" being a \"thought leader,\" or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of.  Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists.\n\nBrandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. As the two discuss, it's a weird job.Links:The Man Who Would Be Khan — March 2004: \"A new breed of American soldier—call him the soldier-diplomat—has come into being since the end of the Cold War. Meet the colonel who was our man in Mongolia, an officer who probably wielded more local influence than many Mongol rulers of yore.\"","content_html":"<p>Coté talks about his job being an &quot;evangelist,&quot; a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work&#39;s like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. Call it &quot;developer advocacy,&quot; &quot;developer relations,&quot; being a &quot;thought leader,&quot; or just a straight up hustler - it&#39;s a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of.  Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists.</p>\n\n<p>Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work&#39;s like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. As the two discuss, it&#39;s a weird job.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"The Man Who Would Be Khan\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/the-man-who-would-be-khan/302899/\">The Man Who Would Be Khan</a> &mdash; March 2004: \"A new breed of American soldier—call him the soldier-diplomat—has come into being since the end of the Cold War. Meet the colonel who was our man in Mongolia, an officer who probably wielded more local influence than many Mongol rulers of yore.\"</li></ul>","summary":"Coté talks about his job being an \"evangelist,\" a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well.","date_published":"2018-09-03T04:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9dd988b8-fefa-40bc-b6ea-c1f8f3a48284.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":38891564,"duration_in_seconds":4853}]},{"id":"ca2d49d3-ad7e-4516-bdad-dfb2eaf7f92e","title":"Episode 74: Numbers. How do they work? Rachel Stephens","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/74","content_text":"When Coté says he doesn’t know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers.\n\nFine more from Rachel on her RedMonk blog, and in Twitter.Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.Links:Five Minute Finance — Have you ever felt utterly out of your element when meeting with your counterparts in the finance or accounting department? If you find yourself lost when discussing financials, here’s a quick primer on some of the key concepts you should be familiar with at a high level.Developers and Social Responsibility — “We do, however, want a world where developers are cognizant of their impacts. We need developers to analyze their products and think about second order effects from a variety of perspectives as part of the software development process. We want to encourage technological progress, and we want to do right by people. This is one minor example that illustrates the difficulties of anticipating unintended consequences and considering who is empowered/disempowered with technology products. With one in four workers expecting their job to be eliminated via automation in the next decade, this small example is indicative of a much broader economic shift underway.”","content_html":"<p>When Coté says he doesn’t know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers.</p>\n\n<p>Fine more from Rachel on her <a href=\"https://redmonk.com/rstephens/\" rel=\"nofollow\">RedMonk blog</a>, and in <a href=\"https://twitter.com/rstephensme\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Five Minute Finance\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2018/05/25/five-minute-finance/\">Five Minute Finance</a> &mdash; Have you ever felt utterly out of your element when meeting with your counterparts in the finance or accounting department? If you find yourself lost when discussing financials, here’s a quick primer on some of the key concepts you should be familiar with at a high level.</li><li><a title=\"Developers and Social Responsibility\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2017/05/18/developers-social-responsibility/\">Developers and Social Responsibility</a> &mdash; “We do, however, want a world where developers are cognizant of their impacts. We need developers to analyze their products and think about second order effects from a variety of perspectives as part of the software development process. We want to encourage technological progress, and we want to do right by people. This is one minor example that illustrates the difficulties of anticipating unintended consequences and considering who is empowered/disempowered with technology products. With one in four workers expecting their job to be eliminated via automation in the next decade, this small example is indicative of a much broader economic shift underway.”</li></ul>","summary":"When Coté says he doesn’t know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers.","date_published":"2018-08-27T06:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/ca2d49d3-ad7e-4516-bdad-dfb2eaf7f92e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":27186981,"duration_in_seconds":3341}]},{"id":"ac7e7ef3-73c4-4ef0-991a-ebbf3bceeb04","title":"Episode 73: Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/73","content_text":"Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. \n\nLinks:\n\n\nDustin’s Blog\nDustin on Twitter\nDustin’s presentation at Google Next\nRun-one\nVasa Museum \nSpecial Guest: Dustin Kirkland.","content_html":"<p>Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. </p>\n\n<p>Links:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://blog.dustinkirkland.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dustin’s Blog</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dustin on Twitter</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dustin’s presentation at Google Next</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://launchpad.net/run-one\" rel=\"nofollow\">Run-one</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.vasamuseet.se/en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vasa Museum </a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.</p>","summary":"Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. ","date_published":"2018-08-20T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/ac7e7ef3-73c4-4ef0-991a-ebbf3bceeb04.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":37092250,"duration_in_seconds":4628}]},{"id":"bd9fc363-833e-420d-bc16-cef4d2899826","title":"Episode 72: Chris Donaldson on Automation","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/72","content_text":"How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What's the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort?  In this interview with Acxiom's Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation.. We discuss his career and how his previous experiences shaped his view of IT Automation. He offers practical advice on automation, weight lifting and how best to secure shade at the beach.\n\nLinks:\n\n\nJobs at Acxiom\nFloret Microservices\nSpecial Guest: Chris Donaldson.","content_html":"<p>How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What&#39;s the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort?  In this interview with Acxiom&#39;s Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation.. We discuss his career and how his previous experiences shaped his view of IT Automation. He offers practical advice on automation, weight lifting and how best to secure shade at the beach.</p>\n\n<h3>Links:</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://acxiom.jobs/conway-ar/senior-release-deployment-engineer/7ADDC0D58B574521B0467A0A4975E506/job/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jobs at Acxiom</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/Acxiom/floret\" rel=\"nofollow\">Floret Microservices</a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Chris Donaldson.</p>","summary":"How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What's the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort?  In this interview with Acxiom's Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation.","date_published":"2018-08-13T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/bd9fc363-833e-420d-bc16-cef4d2899826.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30950757,"duration_in_seconds":3860}]},{"id":"3f3837a7-0029-47cf-bf30-52cdf3265c85","title":"Episode 71: Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/71","content_text":"Brandon speaks with  Matthew Brutsché from 500 Rockets Marketing. Matt gives us his bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store in Seattle. Plus,  we talk about the evolution of digital marketing and what it means to launch a product into the market. \n\nLinks:\nAmazon Go Store\n500 Rockets Marketing\nQuick Concall iPhone AppSpecial Guest: Matt Brutsche.","content_html":"<p>Brandon speaks with  <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbrut/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Brutsché</a> from <a href=\"https://500rockets.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">500 Rockets Marketing</a>. Matt gives us his bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store in Seattle. Plus,  we talk about the evolution of digital marketing and what it means to launch a product into the market. </p>\n\n<p>Links:<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon Go Store</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://500rockets.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">500 Rockets Marketing</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://www.quickconcall.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quick Concall iPhone App</a></p><p>Special Guest: Matt Brutsche.</p>","summary":"Brandon interviews Matthew Brutsché from 500 Rockets Marketing. Matt makes bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store and we talk about the evolution of digital marketing. ","date_published":"2018-07-30T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/3f3837a7-0029-47cf-bf30-52cdf3265c85.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30284801,"duration_in_seconds":3743}]},{"id":"c0db9685-b2bc-4ab5-a400-5b37f1676aa5","title":"Episode 70: Satish Kodukula on Product Management","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/70","content_text":"Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP).  \n\nNotes:\n\nMarc Andreessen on Product/Market Fit\n\nMore about Satish:\n\n\nChief Winning Officer \nAustin Software Consulting\nAll Star Pick\n\n\nWrap up with Software Defined Talk plugs\n\n\nCheck out our other podcast: Software Defined Talk.  A weekly round up of all the news in Enterprise Tech. \nKeep up with the weekly newsletter.\nJoin us in Slack.\nBuy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)\nSend your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.\nSpecial Guest: Satish Kodukula.","content_html":"<p>Brandon interviews <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/skodukula/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Satish Kodukula</a> about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP).  </p>\n\n<h2>Notes:</h2>\n\n<p>Marc Andreessen on <a href=\"https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Product/Market Fit</a></p>\n\n<h2>More about Satish:</h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.chiefwinningofficer.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chief Winning Officer</a> </li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.austinsoftwareconsulting.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Austin Software Consulting</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://allstarpick.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">All Star Pick</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<h2>Wrap up with Software Defined Talk plugs</h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Check out our other podcast: <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Defined</a> <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Talk</a>.  A weekly round up of all the news in Enterprise Tech. </li>\n<li>Keep up with the weekly <a href=\"https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21\" rel=\"nofollow\">newsletter</a>.</li>\n<li>Join us <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack\" rel=\"nofollow\">in Slack</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buy some t-shirts</a>! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)</li>\n<li>Send your name and address to <a href=\"mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and we will send you a sticker.</li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Satish Kodukula.</p>","summary":"Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP).  ","date_published":"2018-04-09T05:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/c0db9685-b2bc-4ab5-a400-5b37f1676aa5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25116929,"duration_in_seconds":3103}]},{"id":"0cfd8d83-3827-4218-97e3-d1e5a211c8e2","title":"Episode 69: Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/69","content_text":"Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they’re putting out. And while there’s two major firms in the tech world - Gartner and Forrester - there’s plenty of other firms and individuals to work with. In this episode, Coté talks with Rita Manachi who’s been doing AR for over a decade about all of this, plus some advice on selecting drinks and using iPads in meetings.Special Guest: Rita Manachi.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they’re putting out. And while there’s two major firms in the tech world - Gartner and Forrester - there’s plenty of other firms and individuals to work with. In this episode, Coté talks with Rita Manachi who’s been doing AR for over a decade about all of this, plus some advice on selecting drinks and using iPads in meetings.</p><p>Special Guest: Rita Manachi.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they’re putting out. And while there’s two major firms in the tech world - Gartner and Forrester - there’s plenty of other firms and individuals to work with. In this episode, Coté talks with Rita Manachi who’s been doing AR for over a decade about all of this, plus some advice on selecting drinks and using iPads in meetings.","date_published":"2018-04-02T09:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/0cfd8d83-3827-4218-97e3-d1e5a211c8e2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":24229739,"duration_in_seconds":2906}]},{"id":"5790f894-29a6-463f-8e0d-84f6494158b9","title":"Episode 68: Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/68","content_text":"This is a great conversation with John Mitchell about Duke Energy improving it’s software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning of what kicked the company off, a shift from COTS software to mobile apps and analytics. We then discuss a couple initial projects that Duke transformed, including one that didn’t work out so well, and one that did. Throughout, John shares what he team learned and how they made it happen. Also, we discuss the use it or loose nature of the electricity grid.\n\nApologies for the audio quality on John’s end, I neglected to ask him to make sure his mic was set-up properly.Special Guest: John Mitchell.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>This is a great conversation with <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwilliammitchell/\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Mitchell</a> about Duke Energy improving it’s software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning of what kicked the company off, a shift from COTS software to mobile apps and analytics. We then discuss a couple initial projects that Duke transformed, including one that didn’t work out so well, and one that did. Throughout, John shares what he team learned and how they made it happen. Also, we discuss the use it or loose nature of the electricity grid.</p>\n\n<p>Apologies for the audio quality on John’s end, I neglected to ask him to make sure his mic was set-up properly.</p><p>Special Guest: John Mitchell.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"This is a great conversation with John Mitchell about Duke Energy improving it’s software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning of what kicked the company off, a shift from COTS software to mobile apps and analytics.","date_published":"2018-03-26T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/5790f894-29a6-463f-8e0d-84f6494158b9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":29634567,"duration_in_seconds":3656}]},{"id":"3a3356c3-1232-4e9d-bbf1-499b02106acd","title":"Episode 67: Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/67","content_text":"Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually managed and even conceptualized in organizations is a lot more than just patching software and using CAPTCHA’s. In this discussion, Coté talks with Javvad Malik who’s been in the security business for countless years. In addition to talking about how security is done well and poorly, they discuss controversies in the space and establishing a good baseline for securing organizations. Also, there’s talk of being an industry analyst, British patriotism (or lack thereof?) and webinars, among many other topics.\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n\nRussel Crowe is actually a Kiwi, apologies.\nAlienVault - unified security for threat detection, incident response, and compliance.\n\n\nMore\n\n\nJavvad in Twitter: @j4vv4d.\nJavvad over at AlienVault.\nJavvad’s fantastically funny and informative YouTube videos.\nJ4vv4ad.com - all Javvad, all the time.\nJavvad’s 451 work.\nSpecial Guest: Javvad Malik.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually managed and even conceptualized in organizations is a lot more than just patching software and using CAPTCHA’s. In this discussion, Coté talks with Javvad Malik who’s been in the security business for countless years. In addition to talking about how security is done well and poorly, they discuss controversies in the space and establishing a good baseline for securing organizations. Also, there’s talk of being an industry analyst, British patriotism (or lack thereof?) and webinars, among many other topics.</p>\n\n<h1>Relevant to your interests</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Crowe#Early_life\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russel Crowe is actually a Kiwi</a>, apologies.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.alienvault.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">AlienVault</a> - unified security for threat detection, incident response, and compliance.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h1>More</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Javvad in Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/j4vv4d\" rel=\"nofollow\">@j4vv4d</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.alienvault.com/blogs/author/jmalik\" rel=\"nofollow\">Javvad over at AlienVault</a>.</li>\n<li>Javvad’s <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq8hLs9gIPbazI32Eq2AA\" rel=\"nofollow\">fantastically funny and informative YouTube videos</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.j4vv4d.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">J4vv4ad.com</a> - all Javvad, all the time.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Javvad+Malik\" rel=\"nofollow\">Javvad’s 451 work</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Javvad Malik.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually managed and even conceptualized in organizations is a lot more than just patching software and using CAPTCHA’s. In this discussion, Coté talks with Javvad Malik who’s been in the security business for countless years. In addition to talking about how security is done well and poorly, they discuss controversies in the space and establishing a good baseline for securing organizations. Also, there’s talk of being an industry analyst, British patriotism (or lack thereof?) and webinars, among many other topics.","date_published":"2018-03-18T23:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/3a3356c3-1232-4e9d-bbf1-499b02106acd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":31363047,"duration_in_seconds":3847}]},{"id":"9145024f-ac12-4f3e-9379-24ca33b304e4","title":"Episode 66: Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/66","content_text":"If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies that will either solve all our problems or put everyone out of work. In reality, there’s little to know AI and machine learning, though complex, has many practical uses. While they’re often delightful, there’re not mystical. Coté discusses how to think about machine learning, how it works, and some examples of what it can do with Dominic Wellington.\n\nRelevant links &amp; select articles from Dominic\n\n\nThink Outside The Black Box: “The problem is that each time, the definition of AI has been updated to exclude the recent achievement.”\nNew Paths to Helicon.\nReplace of Augment?\nNot Biting My Tonge: “Where things go wrong is when stodgy enterprise vendors put on their dad-jeans and go down to the skate park.”\nAlgorithmic Reality: “We can see the beginnings of this process already: we drive where the algorithms tell us to drive, we exercise the way the algorithms tell us to exercise, and we even date whom the algorithms tell us to date. We buy films, music, and books that the algorithms recommend, go on holiday where they suggest, and take jobs that they set us up with. In the future, what other decisions will we hand over to algorithms - unquestioning and unconcerned?”\nThe paperclip maximizer.\n\n\nMore\n\n\nIn Twitter: @dwellington.\nHis blog.\nArticles at DevOps.com, IT Chronicles.\nSpecial Guest: Dominic Wellington.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies that will either solve all our problems or put everyone out of work. In reality, there’s little to know AI and machine learning, though complex, has many practical uses. While they’re often delightful, there’re not mystical. Coté discusses how to think about machine learning, how it works, and some examples of what it can do with Dominic Wellington.</p>\n\n<h1>Relevant links &amp; select articles from Dominic</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/post/think-outside-the-black-box\" rel=\"nofollow\">Think Outside The Black Box</a>: “The problem is that each time, the definition of AI has been updated to exclude the recent achievement.”</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/post/new-paths-to-helicon\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Paths to Helicon</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/post/replace-or-augment\" rel=\"nofollow\">Replace of Augment?</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-biting-my-tongue\" rel=\"nofollow\">Not Biting My Tonge</a>: “Where things go wrong is when stodgy enterprise vendors put on their dad-jeans and go down to the skate park.”</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/post/algorithmic-reality\" rel=\"nofollow\">Algorithmic Reality</a>: “We can see the beginnings of this process already: we drive where the algorithms tell us to drive, we exercise the way the algorithms tell us to exercise, and we even date whom the algorithms tell us to date. We buy films, music, and books that the algorithms recommend, go on holiday where they suggest, and take jobs that they set us up with. In the future, what other decisions will we hand over to algorithms - unquestioning and unconcerned?”</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer\" rel=\"nofollow\">The paperclip maximizer</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h1>More</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>In Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/dwellington\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dwellington</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://findthethread.postach.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">His blog</a>.</li>\n<li>Articles at <a href=\"https://devops.com/author/dominicw/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOps.com</a>, <a href=\"https://www.itchronicles.com/author/dominicwellington/\" rel=\"nofollow\">IT Chronicles</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Dominic Wellington.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies that will either solve all our problems or put everyone out of work. In reality, there’s little to know AI and machine learning, though complex, has many practical uses. While they’re often delightful, there’re not mystical. Coté discusses how to think about machine learning, how it works, and some examples of what it can do with Dominic Wellington.","date_published":"2018-03-11T23:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9145024f-ac12-4f3e-9379-24ca33b304e4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":32448019,"duration_in_seconds":3997}]},{"id":"1524e726-5b17-4f29-9bf3-d0882217d547","title":"Episode 65: Walter Bodwell on Agile","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/65","content_text":"How do you implement Agile? Why does Agile matter? How has Agile changed in the last decade? Where do you get a beer in Austin? Walter Bodwell answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus, we hear the story of how Evity was sold for $100 Million.\n\nMore\n\n\nPlanigle\nwww.walterbodwell.com\nAgile Austin\nKeep Austin Agile 2018\n\n\nImage CreditSpecial Guest: Walter Bodwell.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>How do you implement Agile? Why does Agile matter? How has Agile changed in the last decade? Where do you get a beer in Austin? <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wbodwell/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Walter Bodwell</a> answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus, we hear the story of how Evity was sold for $100 Million.</p>\n\n<h3>More</h3>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.planigle.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Planigle</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.walterbodwell.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.walterbodwell.com</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.agileaustin.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Agile Austin</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://conference.agileaustin.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keep Austin Agile 2018</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/chrissmouse/status/910305604413087744\" rel=\"nofollow\">Image Credit</a></p><p>Special Guest: Walter Bodwell.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"How do you implement Agile? Why does Agile matter? How has Agile changed in the last decade? Where do you get a beer in Austin? Walter Bodwell answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus, we hear how a 9-month old company was sold for $100 Million. ","date_published":"2018-03-07T05:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/1524e726-5b17-4f29-9bf3-d0882217d547.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":29377817,"duration_in_seconds":3630}]},{"id":"d33f5b2a-e20e-4a60-80bb-d1343533b3f2","title":"Episode 64: Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/64","content_text":"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 that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.\n\nMore\n\n\nRecorded Talk on Istio.\nTwitter: cmluciano_\nHis website.\nHis LinkedIn.\nSpecial Guest: Christopher Luciano.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG","content_html":"<p>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 that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.</p>\n\n<h1>More</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Recorded <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZQcu1dwlQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Talk on Istio</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/cmluciano_\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a>: cmluciano_</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://cmluciano.github.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">His website</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmluciano/\" rel=\"nofollow\">His LinkedIn</a>.</li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Christopher Luciano.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul>","summary":"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 that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.","date_published":"2018-03-01T14:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/d33f5b2a-e20e-4a60-80bb-d1343533b3f2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":41617244,"duration_in_seconds":5173}]},{"id":"da3a7b84-44eb-464f-9428-8c0df92e96a4","title":"Episode 63: JJ Asghar on DevOps, Compliance and Grilling","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/63","content_text":"JJ Asghar from Chef explains how he found his way into DevOps and why DevOps makes Christmas better. We also discuss the latest news about Uber's security breach and how it could have been prevented. Finally, we find time to talk about gas grills, building Linux from scratch and what it takes to be an Eagle Scout. \n\nOne more thing, we also explain how JJ got his nickname \"NO_SSH_JJ.\"\n\nJJ wants you to go to ChefConf in Chicago May 22-25. Tell him his friends at Software Defined Interviews sent you. \n\nMore stuff from us:\n\n\nListen to our other podcast Software Defined Talk\nSubscribe to the Newsletter\nJoin us in Slack\nBuy a Software Defined Talk T-Shirt use code SDTFSG for 20% off. \nSend your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and get a free laptop sticker! \nSpecial Guest: JJ Asghar.","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/jjasghar\" rel=\"nofollow\">JJ Asghar</a> from <a href=\"https://www.chef.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chef</a> explains how he found his way into DevOps and why DevOps makes Christmas better. We also discuss the latest news about <a href=\"https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/uber_quit_github_for_custom_code_after_2016_data_breach/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Uber&#39;s security breach</a> and how it could have been prevented. Finally, we find time to talk about gas grills, building Linux from scratch and what it takes to be an Eagle Scout. </p>\n\n<p>One more thing, we also explain how JJ got his nickname &quot;NO_SSH_JJ.&quot;</p>\n\n<p>JJ wants you to go to <a href=\"https://chefconf.chef.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ChefConf</a> in Chicago May 22-25. Tell him his friends at Software Defined Interviews sent you. </p>\n\n<p>More stuff from us:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to our other podcast <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Software Defined Talk</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21\" rel=\"nofollow\">Subscribe to the Newsletter</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack\" rel=\"nofollow\">Join us in Slack</a></li>\n<li>Buy a Software Defined Talk <a href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\" rel=\"nofollow\">T-Shirt</a> use code SDTFSG for 20% off. </li>\n<li>Send your name and address to <a href=\"mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and get a free laptop sticker! </li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: JJ Asghar.</p>","summary":"JJ Asghar from Chef explains how he found his way into DevOps and why DevOps makes Christmas better. We also discuss the latest news about Uber's security breach and how it could have been prevented. ","date_published":"2018-02-19T05:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/da3a7b84-44eb-464f-9428-8c0df92e96a4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":33585384,"duration_in_seconds":4142}]},{"id":"9de689d1-d269-4e1d-a7ca-4ceb05cad781","title":"Episode 62: Nancy Gohring on monitoring, observability, DevOps, & M&A","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/62","content_text":"This is a really fun and great episode with Nancy Gohring on monitoring, log management, DevOps, M&amp;A in the space, and tech journalism. Also, we finally get the most concise analysts of the $3.7bn Cisco/AppDynamics deal that I’ve ever heard. If you’re the type of person who knows the words “observiblity,” “The Big 4,” SNMP, or even just DevOps, you’ll like this episode.\n\nNancy Gohring covers application and infrastructure performance for 451 Research, including IT monitoring, application performance management and log management. Check her out in Twitter: @ngohring.\n\nYou can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!\n\nThere’s some more detailed show notes as well.Special Guest: Nancy Gohring.Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSGLinks:Nancy in TwitterNacy's 451 researchNancy's recent report on the Application and Infrastructure Performance Market","content_html":"<p>This is a really fun and great episode with Nancy Gohring on monitoring, log management, DevOps, M&amp;A in the space, and tech journalism. Also, we finally get the most concise analysts of the $3.7bn Cisco/AppDynamics deal that I’ve ever heard. If you’re the type of person who knows the words “observiblity,” “The Big 4,” SNMP, or even just DevOps, you’ll like this episode.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Nancy+Gohring\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nancy Gohring covers</a> application and infrastructure performance for 451 Research, including IT monitoring, application performance management and log management. Check her out in Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ngohring\" rel=\"nofollow\">@ngohring</a>.</p>\n\n<p>You can now <a href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\" rel=\"nofollow\">buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts</a> and <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact\" rel=\"nofollow\">fill out the contact form with your mailing address</a> if you’d like some free stickers!</p>\n\n<p>There’s <a href=\"/doc/Interviews-062-Nancy-Gohring-on-monitoring-observability-DevOps-MA-ujL9e8zjHB5Og1omXirvy\" rel=\"nofollow\">some more detailed show</a> notes as well.</p><p>Special Guest: Nancy Gohring.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">Software Defined Talk</a>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\">You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL!</a> Promo Code: SDTFSG</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Nancy in Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://twitter.com/ngohring/\">Nancy in Twitter</a></li><li><a title=\"Nacy&#39;s 451 research\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Nancy+Gohring\">Nacy&#39;s 451 research</a></li><li><a title=\"Nancy&#39;s recent report on the Application and Infrastructure Performance Market\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://451research.com/report-long?icid=4706\">Nancy&#39;s recent report on the Application and Infrastructure Performance Market</a></li></ul>","summary":"This is a really fun and great episode with Nancy Gohring on monitoring, log management, DevOps, M&A in the space, and tech journalism. Also, we finally get the most concise analysts of the $3.7bn Cisco/AppDynamics deal that I’ve ever heard. If you’re the type of person who knows the words “observiblity,” “The Big 4,” SNMP, or even just DevOps, you’ll like this episode.","date_published":"2018-02-12T08:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9de689d1-d269-4e1d-a7ca-4ceb05cad781.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":32863177,"duration_in_seconds":4029}]},{"id":"600f8fcf-cfd2-46ae-952b-3fc7bf040e08","title":"Episode 61: Jon Collins on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/61","content_text":"“It’s quite good to see GDPR as an evolution, not a revolution.”\n\nThe EU is rolling out a huge privacy data regulation policy this Spring,  the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you do anything with “customer data,” you should probably at least take a look at it. Companies like Facebook and others who use customer data to work with third parties are gonna have GDPR all up in their grills. In this interviews episode, we talk with Jon Collins who’s been writing about GDPR of late from his perch in the UK. Jon’s an excellent analyst and always has incisive takes on enterprise IT related matters, as well as music (sadly, not featured in this episode).\n\nYou can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!\n\nBrandon Whichard, Coté, guest Jon Collins.\n\nShow\n\n\nPutting people on the line for data handling problems.\nDefining legit use for data: like updating on products bought, recommending other things to buy based on past buying. But, when it comes to holding you’re kid’s interest and other creepy thing, stuff comes into effect. Can’t hoard data now, have to justify why you’re doing it at least.\nSo, sort of: if a third party gets ahold of the data, you need to spell out to the end-user what the data is and how it’ll be used.\nThey started thinking about GDRP in 2005; it’s taken then 12 years for them to come up with this.\n\n\nJon on GDPR, and more\n\n\n“GDPR, a topic about which I feel strangely sad [about]”\nSummarize it - ensure data can be encrypted, provide data on-demand, notify of data breaches (but just in unencrypted?), appoint CDO, somehow describe policy to end user (is this a set policy or can organizations differ it?), data must stay in EU (unless protection stuff is done off-shore)\nHow’d this come about?\n“IT professionals expect that compliance with GDPR will require additional investment: over 80 percent of those surveyed expect GDPR-related spending to be at least $100,000.” (Book of all knowledge)\nIn use: “Facebook needs to ask people if it can use status posts as input to its advertising engines, whereas Google does not need to know someone is — its AdWords algorithms generate information based on search requests, location and so on, without being personally identifiable.”\nMeanwhile, “we will consent to have our privacy even more eroded than it already is.” What exactly should we care about with data privacy: how does an individual think through what Facebook does, Axcion, Target, the government, foreign governments, etc. - aka, Jon vs. The McNealy Privacy Principal (it’s dead, get over it).\nGeneralizing to Jon’s five rules of cyber security.\n\n\nBackground\n\n\nCovering tech: “It’s a conundrum: when to say something out loud, even if it’s been said before?”\n@jonno\nJon’s author page on Amazon\nNewsletter\nPodcast\nGigaom Column\n\n\nCredits: header image from warrenrandalcarr.Special Guest: Jon Collins.","content_html":"<p><em>“It’s quite good to see GDPR as an evolution, not a revolution.”</em></p>\n\n<p>The EU is rolling out a huge privacy data regulation policy this Spring,  the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you do anything with “customer data,” you should probably at least take a look at it. Companies like Facebook and others who use customer data to work with third parties are gonna have GDPR all up in their grills. In this interviews episode, we talk with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonno\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Collins</a> who’s been <a href=\"https://gigaom.com/2018/01/11/will-gdpr-fail-beyond-the-new-regulation/\" rel=\"nofollow\">writing about GDPR of late</a> from his perch in the UK. Jon’s an excellent analyst and always has incisive takes on enterprise IT related matters, as well as music (sadly, not featured in this episode).</p>\n\n<p>You can now <a href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\" rel=\"nofollow\">buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts</a> and <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact\" rel=\"nofollow\">fill out the contact form with your mailing address</a> if you’d like some free stickers!</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/bwhichard\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brandon Whichard</a>, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coté</a>, guest <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonno\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Collins</a>.</p>\n\n<h1>Show</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Putting people on the line for data handling problems.</li>\n<li>Defining legit use for data: like updating on products bought, recommending other things to buy based on past buying. But, when it comes to holding you’re kid’s interest and other creepy thing, stuff comes into effect. Can’t hoard data now, have to justify why you’re doing it at least.</li>\n<li>So, sort of: if a third party gets ahold of the data, you need to spell out to the end-user what the data is and how it’ll be used.</li>\n<li>They started thinking about GDRP in 2005; it’s taken then 12 years for them to come up with this.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h1>Jon on GDPR, and more</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>“GDPR, a topic about which I feel strangely sad [about]”</li>\n<li>Summarize it - ensure data can be encrypted, provide data on-demand, notify of data breaches (but just in unencrypted?), appoint CDO, somehow describe policy to end user (is this a set policy or can organizations differ it?), data must stay in EU (unless protection stuff is done off-shore)</li>\n<li>How’d this come about?</li>\n<li>“IT professionals expect that compliance with GDPR will require additional investment: over 80 percent of those surveyed expect GDPR-related spending to be at least $100,000.” (<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation\" rel=\"nofollow\">Book of all knowledge</a>)</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://gigaom.com/2018/01/11/will-gdpr-fail-beyond-the-new-regulation/\" rel=\"nofollow\">In use</a>: “Facebook needs to ask people if it can use status posts as input to its advertising engines, whereas Google does not need to know someone is — its AdWords algorithms generate information based on search requests, location and so on, without being personally identifiable.”</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=deb992a367\" rel=\"nofollow\">Meanwhile</a>, “we will consent to have our privacy even more eroded than it already is.” What exactly should we care about with data privacy: how does an individual think through what Facebook does, Axcion, Target, the government, foreign governments, etc. - aka, Jon vs. The McNealy Privacy Principal (it’s dead, get over it).</li>\n<li>Generalizing to <a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/84acf426bb46/bulletin-january-26-2018-whence-cybersecurity-and-trust?e=b3386b4844\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon’s five rules of cyber security</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h1>Background</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=d6b6541917\" rel=\"nofollow\">Covering tech</a>: “It’s a conundrum: when to say something out loud, even if it’s been said before?”</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonno\" rel=\"nofollow\">@jonno</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jon-Collins/e/B0034P4X38\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon’s author page on Amazon</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=df3ab02947\" rel=\"nofollow\">Newsletter</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://bluecube.libsyn.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Podcast</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://gigaom.com/author/joncollins/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gigaom Column</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Credits: <a href=\"https://pixabay.com/en/school-paper-binder-education-934051/\" rel=\"nofollow\">header image from warrenrandalcarr</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Jon Collins.</p>","summary":"The EU is rolling out a huge privacy data regulation policy this Spring,  the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you do anything with “customer data,” you should probably at least take a look at it. Companies like Facebook and others who use customer data to work with third parties are gonna have GDPR all up in their grills. In this interviews episode, we talk with [Jon Collins](https://twitter.com/jonno) who’s been [writing about GDPR of late](https://gigaom.com/2018/01/11/will-gdpr-fail-beyond-the-new-regulation/) from his perch in the UK. Jon’s an excellent analyst and always has incisive takes on enterprise IT related matters, as well as music (sadly, not featured in this episode).","date_published":"2018-02-05T09:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/600f8fcf-cfd2-46ae-952b-3fc7bf040e08.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28715034,"duration_in_seconds":3029}]},{"id":"21a16a7a-fca1-4b4f-8778-9dd0fad611a5","title":"Episode 60: Sell-side financial analysts, & enterprise software pricing","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/60","content_text":"What do these financial, equity analyst types do? Well, if the stock market was rational, we could probably tell you. This week, we look at one PDF reporting on cloud and try to make sense of it. Also, we discuss enterprise software pricing, THE DANCE!\n\nMore detailed show notes, including the charts, are available.","content_html":"<p>What do these financial, equity analyst types do? Well, if the stock market was rational, we could probably tell you. This week, we look at one PDF reporting on cloud and try to make sense of it. Also, we discuss enterprise software pricing, THE DANCE!</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP018-Sell-side-financial-analysts-enterprise-software-pricing-HZQSZVFX0hOWmWJrWJLLN\" rel=\"nofollow\">More detailed show notes, including the charts</a>, are available.</p>","summary":"What do these financial, equity analyst types do? Well, if the stock market was rational, we could probably tell you. This week, we look at one PDF reporting on cloud and try to make sense of it. Also, we discuss enterprise software pricing, THE DANCE!","date_published":"2018-01-30T10:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/21a16a7a-fca1-4b4f-8778-9dd0fad611a5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30674303,"duration_in_seconds":3724}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/XXfwR2Cc0fVjGgS0Y_1uJbSc7zLquwNw0QQTdtPWVZRhDIG6ATMCzoDB3OVxxO0y.mp3","title":"Episode 59: Fear of FANG","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/59","content_text":"Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.).This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from The Economist. They also have a smaller version in their “Leaders” section. As always, there are much more extensive, detailed show notes available as well. You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!","content_html":"<p>Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.).<p>This week, we look at <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one write-up of this freaking out from </a><a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Economist</em></a>. They also have <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a smaller version in their</a><a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> </a><a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“</a><a href=\"https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leaders” section</a>. As always, there are much <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP017-Fear-of-FANG-Mb9sZYwAqvP1w6dZcmGtS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more extensive, detailed show notes available as well</a>. </p><p>You can now <a href=\"https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts</a> and <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fill out the contact form with your mailing address</a> if you’d like some free stickers!</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2018-01-19T16:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/5df366c0-b40a-40b0-8a1b-40063b2317e2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31588339,"duration_in_seconds":3906}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/pSKKjB_IyHrDaxIUhnggTDvPtTt-fHZNe7ZFj5bzFCR9U69A2XhOO1zWw2x42MV-.mp3","title":"Episode 58: Who is the CISO?","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/58","content_text":"With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security. ","content_html":"<p>With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylandtx/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Land</a> from the <a href=\"https://www.cisoexecnet.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CISO Exec Network</a> joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security. </p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-12-21T06:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/162cc747-a9b6-4b80-b5f1-085ea8f4e796.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28476189,"duration_in_seconds":3517}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/_60n9KKhSUo9rY0JD7IWvs_XYKM7GPKwWFuyLqaGOqAHHVkyeiZL4gcg-NePzWCg.mp3","title":"Episode 57: VC Tech Predictions & Newsletters, Ben Evans edition","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/57","content_text":"In this episode we look at two tech world artifacts: weekly, curated links in email newsletters and the trends and predictions presentation. Ben Evans does both of these and provides great pieces to do some deep reading.If you're not a man, make sure you take the listener survey. (We got plenty of male-responses.)See the detailed show notes.","content_html":"<p>In this episode we look at two tech world artifacts: weekly, curated links in email newsletters and the trends and predictions presentation. Ben Evans does both of these and provides great pieces to do some deep reading.<p>If you&#39;re not a man, make sure you take <a href=\"https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSCKN86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the listener survey</a>. (We got plenty of male-responses.)</p><p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP016-VC-Tech-Predictions-Newsletters-Ben-Evans-edition-0VAspba7QLHm9RIB8ravJ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the detailed show notes</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-12-15T11:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9461cd41-621a-4b7e-a6c5-4fb648cec170.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29125683,"duration_in_seconds":3598}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/IaOUey777OyLxH_53JjgRvix3gv6GSDfkayvPVEFR16x1bes0AzmyusNZxzNBEV7.mp3","title":"Episode 56: The tech column/opinion piece","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/56","content_text":"This week, we look at the tech editorial page, columns that people like Matt Asay and Coté write. First we discuss if this is even a category, and then go over three columns Coté has written recently.(Slightly) more detailed show notes over in paper.","content_html":"<p>This week, we look at the tech editorial page, columns that people like Matt Asay and Coté write. First we discuss if this is even a category, and then go over three columns Coté has written recently.<p>(Slightly) more detailed <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP015-Tech-News-Cotes-Register-columns-6xJXpQQKhjiZzvpTu0nCz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">show notes over in paper</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-11-29T13:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/be14c331-2763-427a-8bcb-20ae35258106.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51436343,"duration_in_seconds":3193}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/qMP69gDukvB_1ZJ3P0AOQpYLC_pxNJLgpBa-bEwXGnzCxlU5frX66iJof_sGE8CJ.mp3","title":"Episode 55: The OpenStack Community Survey & Oceania Sales Motions","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/55","content_text":"Community surveys are a handy tool for tracking momentum, proving legitimacy, and, of course, understanding the state of the community. “Community” doesn’t have to be all rainbows and sandals - open source - but it often does. This week we look at the most recent OpenStack Community Survey.See more detailed show notes.","content_html":"<p>Community surveys are a handy tool for tracking momentum, proving legitimacy, and, of course, understanding the state of the community. “Community” doesn’t have to be all rainbows and sandals - open source - but it often does. This week we look at <a href=\"https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/OpenStack-User-Survey-Nov17.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent OpenStack Community Survey</a>.<p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP014-The-OpenStack-Community-Survey-Oceania-Sales-Motions-YflQYUDKdlmbi8E4FGVxs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more detailed show notes</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-11-13T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/e11e644b-c9ca-4be0-9145-99d5eccf2ebe.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25619547,"duration_in_seconds":3160}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/Q5-2GnF7VH83BzaxfSnWs5FKI_Ij2Qmjze3QExLsUPNW5EoUEV5pk2zF_71QZ7_Z.mp3","title":"Episode 54: The Corporate Podcast, & EBC’ing","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/54","content_text":"Murder and comedy podcasts are all fun and dandy, but they’re strategically used by tech companies as well as marketing. This week, we look at some common formats, how they’re done, and how to consume them.Detailed show notes: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Corporate-Podcast-EBCing-azErWSniyTIDSTn8cQn1U","content_html":"<p>Murder and comedy podcasts are all fun and dandy, but they’re strategically used by tech companies as well as marketing. This week, we look at some common formats, how they’re done, and how to consume them.<p>Detailed show notes: <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Corporate-Podcast-EBCing-azErWSniyTIDSTn8cQn1U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Corporate-Podcast-EBCing-azErWSniyTIDSTn8cQn1U\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Corporate-Podcast-EBCing-azErWSniyTIDSTn8cQn1U</a></a></p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-11-02T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/64f266a7-e4ba-4ffd-8755-2eb99a6b0ef2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28313877,"duration_in_seconds":3497}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/wkQ6bCrgLeHdpEY6MPFuvu6Iyb3euXnD1rFEcyh5sxFEdUh6bEvxKjGytQZRjhlv.mp3","title":"Episode 53: The Lone Wolf Analyst","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/53","content_text":"This week, we look at one of the new analyst models, and what they do, by way of Ben Thompson. Horace Dediu and RedMonk are other examples of this model, but Ben Thompson is the highest flying, most interesting practicer now. Ben’s business model is pretty straight-forward: a partial paywall around his some of his weekly content, podcast sponsorships, and (maybe?) consulting.Also, the DC steak scene, BLT Steakhouse’s odd way of cooking a steak. Brandon says to go to Charlie Palmer’s.Check out the more detailed show notes and links.","content_html":"<p>This week, we look at one of <a href=\"https://cote.io/2015/02/19/the-new-industry-analysts-again/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new analyst models</a>, and what they do, by way of <a href=\"https://stratechery.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Thompson</a>. <a href=\"http://www.asymco.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horace Dediu</a> and <a href=\"http://redmonk.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RedMonk</a> are other examples of this model, but Ben Thompson is the highest flying, most interesting practicer now. Ben’s business model is pretty straight-forward: a partial paywall around his some of his weekly content, podcast sponsorships, and (maybe?) consulting.<p>Also, the DC steak scene, <a href=\"https://bltrestaurants.com/blt-steak/washington-d-c/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLT Steakhouse</a>’s odd way of cooking a steak. Brandon says to go to <a href=\"http://www.charliepalmersteak.com/locations/washington-dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Palmer’s</a>.</p><p>Check out the <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP012-Ben-Thompson-the-lone-wolf-analyst-blogs-podcasts-paywalls-and-business-analysis-or-well-thats-fine-for-Ben-ItgLjzbmYgwzti0tLU71z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more detailed show notes and links.</a></p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-10-27T07:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9e89a8f7-346f-4f2a-8106-9d2f2620910f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28416168,"duration_in_seconds":3509}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/IqLgg258bnzipw0joyiAYSb6VpSOArRteyAckhbHIlcXx7fW2UKj5jfUj7KYZ7yh.mp3","title":"Episode 52: The Four","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/52","content_text":"This week we look at The Four. Coté had high hopes. More importantly, we look at the medium and mechanics of a business book.More detailed show notes and such.","content_html":"<p>This week we look at <em>The Four</em>. Coté had high hopes. More importantly, we look at the medium and mechanics of a business book.<p>More <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP011-The-airport-tech-business-book-The-Four-eOfHZ7PwWkUdCq41ILcrP?_tk=share_copylink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detailed show notes and such</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-10-20T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/e94a944a-ecea-4e71-b664-72697be0b92f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28823949,"duration_in_seconds":3560}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/8lJZPUDAIV_vjn1WZoRpBCLe92Ou0bBV-D0Yb_HbT96AxC6qW1GkfEJ3O0zJfmhy.mp3","title":"Episode 51: The fluffy, leather chair interview, or, “Do you think the edge forces you to go hybrid?” or, there’s a lot of high-dollar farts in those chairs","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/51","content_text":"The big fluffy, leather chair interview is a staple of the tech world now. A big named executive (usually) comes up on the stage with a big name journalist and is interviewed in a “wide ranging” discussion. In addition to videos of these being broadcast, tech outlets often write summaries - news stories even - based on the interviews, and others sometimes post “lighted edited transcripts.” One of our favorite news sites, CRN, does this often. And while they do the sleazy thing of making 20-35 pages out of what should be a, at most, two page story, they’re usually good interviews if you’re into the the topic. Continuing a discussion we started in SDT #108,  we look at three of these interviews, giving us the chance to a close reading of the interviews themselves and talk about the format in general.The three interviews: (1.) Meg Whitman, HPE; (2.) Steve Singh, Docker; (3.) Pat Gelsinger, VMware. All of them, of course, are CEOs.See the more detailed show notes for more.","content_html":"<p>The big fluffy, leather chair interview is a staple of the tech world now. A big named executive (usually) comes up on the stage with a big name journalist and is interviewed in a “wide ranging” discussion. In addition to videos of these being broadcast, tech outlets often write summaries - news stories even - based on the interviews, and others sometimes post “lighted edited transcripts.” One of our favorite news sites, <em>CRN</em>, does this often. And while they do the sleazy thing of making 20-35 pages out of what should be a, at most, two page story, they’re usually good interviews if you’re into the the topic. Continuing <a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a discussion we started in </a><a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>SDT</em></a><a href=\"http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> #108</a>,  we look at three of these interviews, giving us the chance to a close reading of the interviews <p>themselves and talk about the format in general.</p><p>The three interviews: (1.) <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093601/hpe-ceo-meg-whitman-on-upcoming-changes-to-field-compensation-the-impact-of-dell-on-hpes-vmware-relationship-and-why-hardware-still-matters-in-the-software-defined-era.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Whitman, HPE</a>; (2.) <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Singh, Docker</a>; (3.) <a href=\"http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093731/vmware-ceo-pat-gelsinger-on-rapid-growth-in-non-vsphere-products-how-partnerships-with-competitors-make-sense-and-why-running-containers-without-vms-is-a-stupid-idea.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Gelsinger, VMware</a>. All of them, of course, are CEOs.</p><p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP010-The-fluffy-leather-chair-interview-or-Do-you-think-the-edge-forces-you-to-go-hybrid-or-theres-a-lot-of-high-doll-4GsUA8ErNeJPDDeyQaqf3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the more detailed show notes</a> for more.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-10-13T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/c19b4fd9-9e50-44b9-be15-b36c916b165c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36470157,"duration_in_seconds":4516}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/VdE5hF-Rs6hX20hUCwDiqSO2QH5r9EzJ3wTUfkAdWLW2Z15blednwU6EsmoFVHno.mp3","title":"Episode 50: Just another kubernetes article","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/50","content_text":"This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter.See the detailed notes for more.This episode was made free since we haven't been recording the regular show.","content_html":"<p>This week, we look at <a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-8-arrives-improvements-simplicity-stability-security-storage-improvements/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an article from Susan Hall at </a><a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-8-arrives-improvements-simplicity-stability-security-storage-improvements/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New Stack</em></a>. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter.<p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP009-Just-another-kubernetes-article-3Ycdt0BnCTwnhHGzhVI7O\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the detailed notes for more.</a></p><p>This episode was made free since we haven&#39;t been recording the regular show.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-10-03T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/a2bd86a7-b743-442f-bafa-b0268af89722.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54197549,"duration_in_seconds":3847}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/eiA1Z42OLc_C00HNkGULjnMAgbTqcFHeOgrf7czGf63um6WB-nfCV-pK000ZwMvr.mp3","title":"Episode 49: Heptio’s funding press releases, or, “marriages, divorces, and births”","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/49","content_text":"Press releases are a high art in our trade. There’s certain formats to follow, the audiences are always precise, and making a good one is a sign of a cunning PR pro. This week, we look at  a funding announcement from Heptio. It follows the classic form fairly well, so you’ll see how general press releases are done and some attributes of the funding press release.See more detailed show notes.","content_html":"<p>Press releases are a high art in our trade. There’s certain formats to follow, the audiences are always precise, and making a good one is a sign of a cunning PR pro. This week, we look at  <a href=\"http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/heptio-closes-25-million-series-b-funding-accelerate-growth-cloud-native-computing-2233467.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a funding announcement from Heptio</a>. It follows the classic form fairly well, so you’ll see how general press releases are done and some attributes of the funding press release.<p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP008-Heptios-funding-press-releases-or-marriages-divorces-and-births-YWvbpKmjvl9SWvvEoXUih\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more detailed show notes</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-09-22T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/f19987d4-4ba5-48e1-8020-2caf06349c58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31417093,"duration_in_seconds":3885}]},{"id":"81d1486d-0fc3-4f59-bf4f-b1d30e261092","title":"Episode 41: Southbound cloud-native enterprise architecture","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/41","content_text":"In part two of our cloud-native enterprise architect talk, we discuss the more technical functions of the EA. We think of these as the \"southbound\" functions. Special Guest: Matt Walburn.","content_html":"<p>In part two of our cloud-native enterprise architect talk, we discuss the more technical functions of the EA. We think of these as the &quot;southbound&quot; functions. </p><p>Special Guest: Matt Walburn.</p>","summary":"In part two of our cloud-native enterprise architect talk, we discuss the more technical functions of the EA.","date_published":"2017-09-18T06:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/81d1486d-0fc3-4f59-bf4f-b1d30e261092.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":30537511,"duration_in_seconds":3801}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/AzX1CFabML0gyuQhkgJq-s90N-ynpcJdaUj3_UJmMy7ioSJa-NK3uG9ibbmMUUFq.mp3","title":"Episode 48: Forrester’s CD-ish Wave","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/48","content_text":"We discuss a recent Forrester Wave: “The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q3 2017.” See more detailed notes here.","content_html":"<p>We discuss a recent Forrester Wave: <a href=\"https://kloudrydermcaasicmforrester.s3.amazonaws.com/mcaas/Reprints/RES137969.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q3 2017.”</a> <p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP007-Forresters-CD-ish-Wave-x5919YtZvbCCOKBNq6iVR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more detailed notes here</a>.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-09-13T22:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/edc47c63-6793-49f8-ba42-1f8247b5f1bd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34553152,"duration_in_seconds":4277}]},{"id":"fd1486ec-d60d-4dcd-a9ac-ebdf6eea4167","title":"Episode 40: Do people actually do DevOps? Or, the margarita/bloody mary continuum","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/40","content_text":"On the DevOps question: sure they do, but there are many variations depending on the company.Links:Tommy's MargaritaAnthony Lee and David Brock talk platform operations — The Pivotal Conversations episode mentioned.","content_html":"<p>On the DevOps question: sure they do, but there are many variations depending on the company.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Tommy&#39;s Margarita\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.liquor.com/recipes/tommys-margarita/#gs.xNVcBf8\">Tommy&#39;s Margarita</a></li><li><a title=\"Anthony Lee and David Brock talk platform operations\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/building-running-allstates-platform-team-ep-75\">Anthony Lee and David Brock talk platform operations</a> &mdash; The Pivotal Conversations episode mentioned.</li></ul>","summary":"On the DevOps question: sure they do, but there are many variations depending on the company.","date_published":"2017-09-13T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/fd1486ec-d60d-4dcd-a9ac-ebdf6eea4167.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":17196032,"duration_in_seconds":2107}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/SNbaSo6JmkWdfl9LlZcRgzKYuns_4wH0rKIyZ4gk7nJgY4Atq9kp-3gXMOaixFa8.mp3","title":"Episode 47: Kubernetes & container landscapes from Forrester & Gartner","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/47","content_text":"This week, we talk about two PDFs setting out to briefly describe the kubernetes and great container orchestration landscapes. See [the usual more detailed write-up and analysis elsewhere](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE).This episode was also made free in the regular Software Defined Talk podcast feed - marketing!","content_html":"<p>This week, we talk about two PDFs setting out to briefly describe the kubernetes and great container orchestration landscapes. See [the usual more detailed write-up and analysis elsewhere](<a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE).\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE</a>).</a><p>This episode was also made free in the regular Software Defined Talk podcast feed - marketing!</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-09-01T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9d3ba9f1-b711-4982-b994-913b1380d1a4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30113660,"duration_in_seconds":3722}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/wnjLx_OrqCy3RQnhmyj3OttYVTBR7BbJjmmcTSPVRl_x-ZuxOywgr0GcCBdihiPq.mp3","title":"Episode 46: The full Chef burger, with a side of THE DIGITAL","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/46","content_text":"This week’s paper is sent in by Matt Ray: “Continuous Automation for the Continuous Enterprise.”See detailed, typed analysis in the show-notes, find the paper attached, and enjoy the podcast in your members only RSS feed.","content_html":"<p>This week’s paper is sent in by Matt Ray: <a href=\"https://blog.chef.io/2017/05/16/continuous-automation-measuring-digital-transformation/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“</a><a href=\"https://blog.chef.io/2017/05/16/continuous-automation-measuring-digital-transformation/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continuous Automation for the Continuous Enterprise.”</a><p>See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP005-The-full-Chef-burger-with-a-side-of-THE-DIGITAL-5Lr2r9pb0Tspdc2ISPMKu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detailed, typed analysis in the show-notes</a>, find the paper attached, and enjoy the podcast in your members only RSS feed.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-08-18T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/f1aab627-b8ef-418d-8bed-f5e9745e030d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32794221,"duration_in_seconds":4057}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/UikLk0D54w3d8RxAdhGkofbnPsxCfVjLmRVko7tjhYVLviixkaLry6u72nOsh75G.mp3","title":"Episode 45: The PaaS Hype Cycle, 2017 edition","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/45","content_text":"We look at the 2017 Gartner PaaS Hype Cycle, just released. See more show notes, though not very detailed here.As always, thanks for being a supporter!","content_html":"<p>We look at the <a href=\"https://www.gartner.com/doc/3764563/hype-cycle-platform-service-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Gartner PaaS Hype Cycle</a>, just released. See <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP004-Gartners-Hype-Cycle-for-Platform-as-a-Service-2017-EbPPNkHyqB6UMESBUNMgq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more show notes, though not very detailed here</a>.<p>As always, thanks for being a supporter!</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-08-14T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/f22d6651-3c49-40f3-a79f-747dcc9c4cf9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27302625,"duration_in_seconds":3370}]},{"id":"eba8d84d-62a9-4e64-acf8-24e790751c45","title":"Episode 39: “Microservices is interesting because most enterprises aren't doing it.”","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/39","content_text":"It’s another in the Matt Curry discussions sub-series! We discuss how enterprise are shifting over to a microservices approach, or not.  As Matt explains:\n“A lot of enterprise are trying to figure out how to do microservices…but what they’re actually trying to figure out how to do is small, empowered teams that can independently release.”","content_html":"<p>It’s another in the Matt Curry discussions sub-series! We discuss how enterprise are shifting over to a microservices approach, or not.  As Matt explains:<br>\n“A lot of enterprise are trying to figure out how to do microservices…but what they’re actually trying to figure out how to do is small, empowered teams that can independently release.”</p>","summary":"“A lot of enterprise are trying to figure out how to do microservices…but what they’re actually trying to figure out how to do is small, empowered teams that can independently release.”","date_published":"2017-08-10T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/eba8d84d-62a9-4e64-acf8-24e790751c45.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":24789061,"duration_in_seconds":3002}]},{"id":"8c579b5d-16a9-47db-b5ba-cbf8e07863ab","title":"Episode 38: Coté’s whiskey theory & why The Economist is great","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/38","content_text":"We discuss what the deal is with Canadian whiskey and then talk about why we like The Economist.\n\nYour pals, @cowboyd &amp; @cote.","content_html":"<p>We discuss what the deal is with Canadian whiskey and then talk about why we like <em>The Economist</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Your pals, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cowboyd\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cowboyd</a> &amp; @<a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote</a>.</p>","summary":"We discuss what the deal is with Canadian whiskey and then talk about why we like _The Economist_.","date_published":"2017-08-03T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/8c579b5d-16a9-47db-b5ba-cbf8e07863ab.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":21190708,"duration_in_seconds":2497}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/uPs3q9rtoirV3bojXUS3Q-Yx872_PiCzpFtZ27-bZGRS91f-kh4Kq0OZ4t6CCDD6.mp3","title":"Episode 44: A trillion IoT devices by 2035","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/44","content_text":"IoT will be big by 2035, a trillion devices driving a $1tn of spend/year, according to this paper. How does one come to that figure, and what exactly is IoT. Even better, how would you put together the business case to justify doing an IoT project? Well, you’ll get an average of 5x returns, the paper says, so that’s a compelling start. Also, you should buy some ARM chips. Put together by one of ARM’s investor relations people, this paper is squarely targeted a money people interested in IoT and ARM.See also the raw notes on the paper, references, and more details on the paper. Also, of course, available as a PDF attached here.This paper in question (attached here, as well) was suggested by Alek.As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it's super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that'd be fun to over-analyze!","content_html":"<p>IoT will be big by 2035, a trillion devices driving a $1tn of spend/year, according to <a href=\"https://community.arm.com/iot/b/blog/posts/white-paper-the-route-to-a-trillion-devices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this paper</a>. How does one come to that figure, and what exactly is IoT. Even better, how would you put together the business case to justify doing an IoT project? Well, you’ll get an average of 5x returns, the paper says, so that’s a compelling start. Also, you should buy some ARM chips. Put together by <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-sparks-a3490a31/?ppe=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of ARM’s investor relations people</a>, this paper is squarely targeted a money people interested in IoT and ARM.<p>See also <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP003-A-trillion-IoT-devices-by-2035-Philip-Sparks-ARM-BJg5CTsDMVpHKZmw3Ezdl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the raw notes on the paper, references, and more details on the paper. </a>Also, of course, available as a PDF attached here.</p><p>This <a href=\"https://community.arm.com/iot/b/blog/posts/white-paper-the-route-to-a-trillion-devices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">paper in question</a> (attached here, as well) was <a href=\"https://drunkandretired.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1501591519538361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggested by Alek</a>.</p><p>As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it&#39;s super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.</p><p>Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that&#39;d be fun to over-analyze!</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-08-03T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/4e7a1db3-18b9-450f-a452-042bb3b5c9fe.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25043554,"duration_in_seconds":3088}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/9Ceu6tIuTUrxMoPrJWs5SEeIlgfNcWbn3WNmoSVaLzMXc1I_TIBNEc4spYISaFH4.mp3","title":"Episode 43: Not a [Very Good] DevOps Talk - Software Defined Talk Members Only White Paper Exegesis #2","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/43","content_text":"This week, Brandon and Coté talk analyze Coté's 2016 stump-speech, Not a DevOps Talk. We talk about the process of putting together a talk like this, how it flows, and the desired effect and rhetoric behind it all.See the extensive show notes and much more detail in the attached PDF or online. There's also a bonus write-up about two of Coté's Register columns.As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it's super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that'd be fun to over-analyze!","content_html":"<p>This week, Brandon and Coté talk analyze Coté&#39;s 2016 stump-speech, Not a DevOps Talk. We talk about the process of putting together a talk like this, how it flows, and the desired effect and rhetoric behind it all.<p>See the extensive show notes and much more detail in the attached PDF or <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP002-Not-a-Very-Good-DevOps-Talk-uppkWUh6rMiOSsMl58hId\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online</a>. There&#39;s also a bonus write-up about two of Coté&#39;s <em>Register</em> columns.</p><p>As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it&#39;s super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.</p><p>Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that&#39;d be fun to over-analyze!</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-07-29T07:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/6c033d50-a5fa-4b6a-b300-8d4c07c4ab05.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27392219,"duration_in_seconds":3381}]},{"id":"c0fda0cf-5d84-4d9b-8507-7c9c59894465","title":"Episode 37: Cloud-native enterprise architecture, with Matt Curry & Andrew Clay Shafer","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/37","content_text":"Let’s finally get to the punchline on this “cloud-native enterprise architect” quest. Here, Matt Curry, Andrew Clay Shafer, and I discuss the things that would motivate such a role and try to chart out what functions the cloud-native EA would serve. This still doesn’t answer the question perfectly, but it does point towards good why’s and even some how’s. We do alright at trying to pull it all together.\n\nRough Outline\n\n\nBusiness “outcomes.”\n“So what is it you’d say you do here?”\nMarketing and sales for tech decision making - getting budget, etc.\nThe EA Strawperson - biz/IT alignment, governance, proscribing stacks\nRisk-modeling and procurement costs get better\nEA as the ROI whisperer.\nSRE book discussions, Pivotal Conversations #58 (Andrew and Coté).\nThe technology, and what’s new? AWS RDS as an (almost) end-to-end example.\nSo, EA’s jobs to this point: business stuff… versus defining the platform and tech choices (e.g., “use this pagination library or die!”).\nBut: product people do the business stuff… you prescribe one platform/PaaS… and then most teams now choose their own stuff above the platform.\nAnd doesn’t microservices do the rest…?\nCloud-native EA’s probably spend a lot more attention to process, like SRE-thinking… reducing duplication of services… someone has to have a global, big picture view of everything.\nBeing a change agent: boot-strapping to this DevOps/cloud-native/blah blah\nThe ultimate goal: the business wants to evolve quickly, try new things to try to grow and defend itself quicker; the IT must work, or, at least, be resilient; I don’t want to pay a lot for this muffler; making it easy to do the right thing.\n# Background\nPast discussions on cloud-native EA: Pivotal Conversations #72 and Coté Show #36.\nSome rough notes on research.\nBooks: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy and Continuous Architecture.\n","content_html":"<p>Let’s finally get to the punchline on this “cloud-native enterprise architect” quest. Here, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Curry</a>, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/littleidea\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Clay Shafer</a>, and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">I</a> discuss the things that would motivate such a role and try to chart out what functions the cloud-native EA would serve. This still doesn’t answer the question perfectly, but it does point towards good why’s and even some how’s. We do alright at trying to pull it all together.</p>\n\n<h1>Rough Outline</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Business “outcomes.”</li>\n<li>“So what is it you’d say you do here?”</li>\n<li>Marketing and sales for tech decision making - getting budget, etc.</li>\n<li>The EA Strawperson - biz/IT alignment, governance, proscribing stacks</li>\n<li>Risk-modeling and procurement costs get better</li>\n<li>EA as the ROI whisperer.</li>\n<li>SRE book discussions, <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-google-sre-book-with-andrew-shafer\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Pivotal Conversations</em></a> <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-google-sre-book-with-andrew-shafer\" rel=\"nofollow\">#58</a> (Andrew and Coté).</li>\n<li>The technology, and what’s new? AWS RDS as an (almost) end-to-end example.</li>\n<li>So, EA’s jobs to this point: business stuff… versus defining the platform and tech choices (e.g., “use this pagination library or die!”).</li>\n<li>But: product people do the business stuff… you prescribe one platform/PaaS… and then most teams now choose their own stuff above the platform.</li>\n<li>And doesn’t microservices do the rest…?</li>\n<li>Cloud-native EA’s probably spend a lot more attention to process, like SRE-thinking… reducing duplication of services… someone has to have a global, big picture view of everything.</li>\n<li>Being a change agent: boot-strapping to this DevOps/cloud-native/blah blah</li>\n<li>The ultimate goal: the business wants to evolve quickly, try new things to try to grow and defend itself quicker; the IT must work, or, at least, be resilient; I don’t want to pay a lot for this muffler; making it easy to do the right thing.\n# Background</li>\n<li>Past discussions on cloud-native EA: <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-fat-baby-in-the-water-cloud-native-enterprise-architecture-ep-072\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pivotal Conversations #72</a> and <a href=\"http://www.cote.show/36\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coté Show #36</a>.</li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zA4K9SR1cV_GvA3S-KtZfYrgO854VZuo1rDwtlTd-0Q/edit\" rel=\"nofollow\">rough notes on research</a>.</li>\n<li>Books: <a href=\"http://amzn.to/2gO5bEW\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Enterprise Architecture as Strategy</em></a> and <a href=\"http://amzn.to/2ufgwCA\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Continuous Architecture</em></a>.</li>\n</ul>","summary":"Let’s finally get to the punchline on this “cloud-native enterprise architect” quest. Here, [Matt Curry](https://twitter.com/mattjcurry), [Andrew Clay Shafer](https://twitter.com/littleidea), and [I](https://twitter.com/cote) discuss the things that would motivate such a role and try to chart out what functions the cloud-native EA would serve. This still doesn’t answer the question perfectly, but it does point towards good why’s and even some how’s. We do alright at trying to pull it all together.","date_published":"2017-07-21T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/c0fda0cf-5d84-4d9b-8507-7c9c59894465.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25496505,"duration_in_seconds":3170}]},{"id":"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/6OHmu-o3X6B_CoHGoml-Sl2yWuEyAJoa6lY2A2nzIQ783MrpGFbbeuTEzaA_Ah2G.mp3","title":"Episode 42: PwC says you suck at THE DIGITAL - Software Defined Talk Members Only White Paper Exegesis #1","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/42","content_text":"Our first white paper review, starting with \"what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in Dropbox Paper.You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who'll be getting this.Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you'd like us to go over.Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that'd be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.","content_html":"<p>Our first white paper review, starting with &quot;what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in <a href=\"https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/PwC-says-you-suck-at-THE-DIGITAL-White-Paper-Review-1-X1hjDkyd1nWpJ70HLUsMr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox Paper</a>.<p>You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.</p><p>First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who&#39;ll be getting this.</p><p>Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you&#39;d like us to go over.</p><p>Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that&#39;d be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.</p></p>","summary":"","date_published":"2017-07-21T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/2c22f7b5-387c-44c2-a25f-6fb75dd2fed2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29674041,"duration_in_seconds":3667}]},{"id":"76f6247c-b9f3-4c07-b5ac-736d657cd61d","title":"Episode 36: North-bound Enterprise Architecture with Matt Walburn - that business/IT alignment dance","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/36","content_text":"What’s the “business” side of enterprise architecture? And how does EA’ing start mapping to DevOps, cloud-native, and all the new stuff? In part one of this discussion, I talk with Matt Walburn about how EA’s fit into The Business.\n\nRough Outline\n\n\nRorschaching “Enterprise Architect” (EA)\nThe bad parts of EA - governance\n“Neo-classical DevOps”\nMatt Walburn - AWS, Pivotal, Target.\nDIY Whitepaper\nUnderstanding how the business works, the customers (internal and external), what IT is in place.\nWhat’s the “operating model” for figuring out what IT does: deciding on the plan, finance, HR, translating things to developers.\nTaking out COTS and desktop management - however, commoditizing by going SaaS and IaaS is likely important.\nFiguring out how the business works. Experiences their customers work with that are supported by IT, e.g., eCommerce, mobile device, call-center.\nFiguring out the stick figures and the lines to boxes - user-centric design and thinking.\n\n\nAgile, value-streams.\n\nOutcomes/What is “strategy”?\nOutcomes - result (monetary, usually) you want. How you’ll achieve it (e.g., sell through mobile apps)… working backwards to the things required (in eCommerce, I need to show a catalog of products, get them to pay for it, ship it, handle returns, etc.)\n\n\nThe value of TOGAF and ITIL side-note.\nHow to ferret them out - sit in people with a room and walk back the business, a bunch of questions. “Boardio.”\nHow to “model”/document them - taxonomy.\nHow do these workflows/outcomes align to what the business is doing.\nFinding duplication that’s wasteful - if we want faster cycle-times, we want to democratize data access (more transparent, well-known data sources, etc.)… not burdened with re-creating. Not so much (or only) an “IT service” that’s duplicated, but sort of logical pools of data. Cost-removal is fine, but also removing conflicts and dealing with conflicts, and removing time-to-understand how all these different things work.\n\nDefine future vision, aka, “what do we [in IT] do now?”\n\n\nFirst step, how decoupled is the business from IT\n\nSpecial Guest: Matt Walburn.","content_html":"<p>What’s the “business” side of enterprise architecture? And how does EA’ing start mapping to DevOps, cloud-native, and all the new stuff? In part one of this discussion, I talk with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattwalburn\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Walburn</a> about how EA’s fit into The Business.</p>\n\n<h1>Rough Outline</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Rorschaching “Enterprise Architect” (EA)</li>\n<li>The bad parts of EA - governance</li>\n<li>“Neo-classical DevOps”</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattwalburn\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Walburn</a> - AWS, Pivotal, Target.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://content.pivotal.io/white-papers/the-upside-down-economics-of-building-your-own-platform\" rel=\"nofollow\">DIY Whitepaper</a></li>\n<li>Understanding how the business works, the customers (internal and external), what IT is in place.</li>\n<li>What’s the “operating model” for figuring out what IT does: deciding on the plan, finance, HR, translating things to developers.</li>\n<li>Taking out COTS and desktop management - however, commoditizing by going SaaS and IaaS is likely important.</li>\n<li>Figuring out how the business works. Experiences their customers work with that are supported by IT, e.g., eCommerce, mobile device, call-center.</li>\n<li>Figuring out the stick figures and the lines to boxes - user-centric design and thinking.\n\n<ul>\n<li>Agile, value-streams.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Outcomes/What is “strategy”?</li>\n<li>Outcomes - result (monetary, usually) you want. How you’ll achieve it (e.g., sell through mobile apps)… working backwards to the things required (in eCommerce, I need to show a catalog of products, get them to pay for it, ship it, handle returns, etc.)\n\n<ul>\n<li>The value of TOGAF and ITIL side-note.</li>\n<li>How to ferret them out - sit in people with a room and walk back the business, a bunch of questions. “Boardio.”</li>\n<li>How to “model”/document them - taxonomy.</li>\n<li>How do these workflows/outcomes align to what the business is doing.</li>\n<li>Finding duplication that’s wasteful - if we want faster cycle-times, we want to democratize data access (more transparent, well-known data sources, etc.)… not burdened with re-creating. Not so much (or only) an “IT service” that’s duplicated, but sort of logical pools of data. Cost-removal is fine, but also removing conflicts and dealing with conflicts, and removing time-to-understand how all these different things work.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Define future vision, aka, “what do we [in IT] do now?”\n\n<ul>\n<li>First step, how decoupled is the business from IT</li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Matt Walburn.</p>","summary":"What’s the “business” side of enterprise architecture? And how does EA’ing start mapping to DevOps, cloud-native, and all the new stuff? In part one of this discussion, I talk with [Matt Walburn](https://twitter.com/mattwalburn) about how EA’s fit into The Business.","date_published":"2017-07-20T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/76f6247c-b9f3-4c07-b5ac-736d657cd61d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25186113,"duration_in_seconds":2894}]},{"id":"89374429-f77f-4dd3-87cc-939cbc33420d","title":"Episode 35: You know me, never afraid to be a naive old white guy, or, learning from centuries of fighting over dumb shit","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/35","content_text":"In this Drunk and Retired cameo episode: What's up with Irish and Italian names, and why is the Irish brand so much bigger than the Scottish brand? Also, it seems like there's a lot to learn from 2,000 years of Europeans fighting. Charles and Coté quickly meander through all of this.Links:Ongoing topics list — Rolling list of ideas for things to talk about here.Gulf Shores, Alabama — A fine place for a beach vacation.The Horse of Pride — It’s like _Hillbilly Elegy_, but for 20th century France.frontmacs.el — \"A package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution curated by your friends at Frontside.\"swiper.el — \"Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!\"","content_html":"<p>In this Drunk and Retired cameo episode: What&#39;s up with Irish and Italian names, and why is the Irish brand so much bigger than the Scottish brand? Also, it seems like there&#39;s a lot to learn from 2,000 years of Europeans fighting. Charles and Coté quickly meander through all of this.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Ongoing topics list\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rGnVlXfLDhgrKq9DJX2EOvAvcOBieBBewN5TXjnfHxs/edit#heading=h.oobchxtft092\">Ongoing topics list</a> &mdash; Rolling list of ideas for things to talk about here.</li><li><a title=\"Gulf Shores, Alabama\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Shores,_Alabama\">Gulf Shores, Alabama</a> &mdash; A fine place for a beach vacation.</li><li><a title=\"The Horse of Pride\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://amzn.to/2s9TedW\">The Horse of Pride</a> &mdash; It’s like _Hillbilly Elegy_, but for 20th century France.</li><li><a title=\"frontmacs.el\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs\">frontmacs.el</a> &mdash; \"A package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution curated by your friends at Frontside.\"</li><li><a title=\"swiper.el\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper\">swiper.el</a> &mdash; \"Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!\"</li></ul>","summary":"What's up with Irish and Italian names, and why is the Irish brand so much bigger than the Scottish brand? Also, it seems like there's a lot to learn from 2,000 years of Europeans fighting.","date_published":"2017-06-30T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/89374429-f77f-4dd3-87cc-939cbc33420d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":12234733,"duration_in_seconds":1375}]},{"id":"f9afc4ef-ba30-4a2a-b6f4-888205c094dc","title":"Episode 34: Pipelines, you're gonna need 'em","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/34","content_text":"Without a build pipeline, you might as well pack it up and go home. Matt Curry and I talk about his team’s experience with putting a pipeline in place and dip a bit into how Concourse and other options, like Jenkins. Matt also goes over some of the common meatware barriers to getting CI/CD in place.\n\nFind us here: @mattjcurry and @cote.","content_html":"<p>Without a build pipeline, you might as well pack it up and go home. Matt Curry and I talk about his team’s experience with putting a pipeline in place and dip a bit into how Concourse and other options, like Jenkins. Matt also goes over some of the common meatware barriers to getting CI/CD in place.</p>\n\n<p>Find us here: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>.</p>","summary":"Without a build pipeline, you might as well pack it up and go home.","date_published":"2017-06-08T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/f9afc4ef-ba30-4a2a-b6f4-888205c094dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28014933,"duration_in_seconds":3428}]},{"id":"9f374b77-da14-4b03-8e20-b71aecf4f722","title":"Episode 33: Spring Cloud, Zuul, & API gateways, with Spencer Gibb","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/33","content_text":"All these cloud-native apps don’t magically figure out how to talk with each other themselves. They need to usual help with finding each other (registries) and then mediating and managing their ongoing “chatter” with one-another (API gateways). While killing time at the Pivotal booth at OSCON, I talked with Spencer Gibb who works on these things and more in Spring.","content_html":"<p>All these cloud-native apps don’t magically figure out how to talk with each other themselves. They need to usual help with finding each other (registries) and then mediating and managing their ongoing “chatter” with one-another (API gateways). While killing time at the Pivotal booth at OSCON, I talked with Spencer Gibb who works on these things and more in Spring.</p>","summary":"All these cloud-native apps don’t magically figure out how to talk with each other themselves. They need to usual help with finding each other (registries) and then mediating and managing their ongoing “chatter” with one-another (API gateways). While killing time at the Pivotal booth at OSCON, I talked with Spencer Gibb who works on these things and more in Spring.","date_published":"2017-06-02T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9f374b77-da14-4b03-8e20-b71aecf4f722.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":3713418,"duration_in_seconds":439}]},{"id":"6f6cfd89-1f75-4436-ba3c-049cae0a08fd","title":"Episode 32: Jono Bacon on internal community development and keys to community management","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/32","content_text":"As organizations get deeper into improving how they do IT, they’re interested in replicating the collaborative benefits of open source communities. Jono Bacon has worked in this space for many, many years and shares some of his experiences here with Barton George and I, while we were all at OSCON. Jono also goes over some of the important parts of community management.\n\nSee also the video of this interview.Special Guests: Barton George and Jono Bacon.","content_html":"<p>As organizations get deeper into improving how they do IT, they’re interested in replicating the collaborative benefits of open source communities. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jonobacon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jono Bacon</a> has worked in this space for many, many years and shares some of his experiences here with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/barton808\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barton George</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">I</a>, while we were all at OSCON. Jono also goes over some of the important parts of community management.</p>\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqlbMK8cBZo\" rel=\"nofollow\">the video of this interview</a>.</p><p>Special Guests: Barton George and Jono Bacon.</p>","summary":"As organizations get deeper into improving how they do IT, they’re interested in replicating the collaborative benefits of open source communities. Jono Bacon has worked in this space for many, many years and shares some of his experiences here with Barton and I, while we were all at OSCON. Jono also goes over some of the important parts of community management.","date_published":"2017-06-01T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/6f6cfd89-1f75-4436-ba3c-049cae0a08fd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":10061969,"duration_in_seconds":855}]},{"id":"2ecea654-7ce9-4934-82e9-2a8eff89d68b","title":"Episode 31: Update on the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and the need for enterprises to share more","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/31","content_text":"Abby Kearns talks with Barton and I about what's up at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. We also discuss the encouraging people at enterprises (users of software, not vendors) to share more of best/worst practices and knowledge with each other.\n\nSee also a video of the interview.Special Guests: Abby Kearns and Barton George.","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/ab415\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abby Kearns</a> talks with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/barton808\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barton</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">I</a> about what&#39;s up at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. We also discuss the encouraging people at enterprises (users of software, not vendors) to share more of best/worst practices and knowledge with each other.</p>\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck2oAGRMmPA\" rel=\"nofollow\">a video of the interview</a>.</p><p>Special Guests: Abby Kearns and Barton George.</p>","summary":"[Abby Kearns](https://twitter.com/ab415) talks with [Barton](https://twitter.com/barton808) and [I](https://twitter.com/cote) about what's up at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. We also discuss the encouraging people at enterprises (users of software, not vendors) to share more of best/worst practices and knowledge with each other.","date_published":"2017-05-26T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/2ecea654-7ce9-4934-82e9-2a8eff89d68b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":8144298,"duration_in_seconds":983}]},{"id":"45beeb3c-86e9-4a64-9e8d-b1e882820e26","title":"Episode 30: Patrick Debois on using serverless for a year and half, defining DevOps vs. SRE vs. design, and meatware over tools","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/30","content_text":"At DevOpsDays Austin, 2017, Barton George and I talk with Patrick Debois.\n\nSee also a video of this interview.Special Guests: Barton George and Patrick Debois.","content_html":"<p>At DevOpsDays Austin, 2017, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/barton808\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barton George</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">I</a> talk with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/patrickdebois\" rel=\"nofollow\">Patrick Debois</a>.</p>\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDCmQEJyh50\" rel=\"nofollow\">a video of this interview</a>.</p><p>Special Guests: Barton George and Patrick Debois.</p>","summary":"At DevOpsDays Austin, 2017, [Barton George](https://twitter.com/barton808) and [I](https://twitter.com/cote) talk with [Patrick Debois](https://twitter.com/patrickdebois).","date_published":"2017-05-26T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/45beeb3c-86e9-4a64-9e8d-b1e882820e26.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":7346305,"duration_in_seconds":830}]},{"id":"087f322d-cb54-4718-aef9-e8f82b19cf5b","title":"Episode 29: DevOps at cloud.gov, security, compliance, & cities that start with \"A\"","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/29","content_text":"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. Special Guests: Barton George and Diego Lapiduz.","content_html":"<p>At DevOpsDays Austin 2017, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/barton808\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barton George</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">I</a> talk with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/dlapiduz\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diego Lapiduz</a> about his experience introducing and managing a cloud platform for the US government and, now, his work at Pivotal. </p><p>Special Guests: Barton George and Diego Lapiduz.</p>","summary":"At DevOpsDays Austin 2017, [Barton George](https://twitter.com/barton808) and [I](https://twitter.com/cote) talk with [Diego Lapiduz](https://twitter.com/dlapiduz) about his experience introducing and managing a cloud platform for the US government and, now, his work at Pivotal. ","date_published":"2017-05-25T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/087f322d-cb54-4718-aef9-e8f82b19cf5b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":7107012,"duration_in_seconds":859}]},{"id":"e632f9aa-38aa-48c1-9792-81b657348b92","title":"Episode 28: GSD'ing your way to cloud-native, with Brian Gregory","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/28","content_text":"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.\n\n\nLast episode Brian was on, #12.\nIn Twitter: @mrbriangregory\nSpecial Guest: Brian Gregory.","content_html":"<p>Just under a year later, Brian Gregory is back to tell us how changing over Express Script&#39;s approach to software is doing. As ever, it&#39;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.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.cote.show/12\" rel=\"nofollow\">Last episode Brian was on, #12</a>.</li>\n<li>In Twitter: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mrbriangregory\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mrbriangregory</a></li>\n</ul><p>Special Guest: Brian Gregory.</p>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2017-05-24T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/e632f9aa-38aa-48c1-9792-81b657348b92.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28807619,"duration_in_seconds":3568}]},{"id":"40b9bbf0-35e3-435e-9009-b52a26edbbc6","title":"Episode 27: The arrogance of making sure you get what you want","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/27","content_text":"Coté doesn't like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.Links:070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda, The Frontside Podcast — Always be DevOps'in'.Paleo French Cuisine - Kindle edition by Chef Alain Braux. Cookbooks, Food &amp; Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — Less beans, more fruit.Southern Culture On The Skids: Dirt Track Date — Good hold music.Frijoles charros - Wikipedia — These are the best means that humanity has come up with to date.Pivotal Conversations: Cloud-Native Monitoring &amp; PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65) — In an open source business, you have to figure out how to ask people for money.Show Topics and notes — Our ongoing list of show topics and scratch-pad for shows.What Makes People Do What They Do? Freakonomics — The Israeli pay for being late to pick up your kid story.The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable  — Actually pretty good.Maestro's Classic Beard Butter Wisemen's Blend 8 Ounce — This is what Coté uses, but you can feel free to skip caring about beard-care for the first two years or so.GitHub - felipeochoa/rjsx-mode: A JSX major mode for EmacsMenlo Font","content_html":"<p>Coté doesn&#39;t like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda, The Frontside Podcast\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://frontsidethepodcast.simplecast.fm/70\">070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda, The Frontside Podcast</a> &mdash; Always be DevOps'in'.</li><li><a title=\"Paleo French Cuisine - Kindle edition by Chef Alain Braux. Cookbooks, Food &amp; Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BKD2J5U/coteicomthecoteb\">Paleo French Cuisine - Kindle edition by Chef Alain Braux. Cookbooks, Food &amp; Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.</a> &mdash; Less beans, more fruit.</li><li><a title=\"Southern Culture On The Skids: Dirt Track Date\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000VZUMNE/coteicomthecoteb\">Southern Culture On The Skids: Dirt Track Date</a> &mdash; Good hold music.</li><li><a title=\"Frijoles charros - Wikipedia\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frijoles_charros\">Frijoles charros - Wikipedia</a> &mdash; These are the best means that humanity has come up with to date.</li><li><a title=\"Pivotal Conversations: Cloud-Native Monitoring &amp; PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65)\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/cloud-native-monitor-pcf-metrics-with-todd-persen\">Pivotal Conversations: Cloud-Native Monitoring &amp; PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65)</a> &mdash; In an open source business, you have to figure out how to ask people for money.</li><li><a title=\"Show Topics and notes\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rGnVlXfLDhgrKq9DJX2EOvAvcOBieBBewN5TXjnfHxs/edit#\">Show Topics and notes</a> &mdash; Our ongoing list of show topics and scratch-pad for shows.</li><li><a title=\"What Makes People Do What They Do? Freakonomics\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what-they-do/\">What Makes People Do What They Do? Freakonomics</a> &mdash; The Israeli pay for being late to pick up your kid story.</li><li><a title=\"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable \" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006960LQW/coteicomthecoteb\">The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable </a> &mdash; Actually pretty good.</li><li><a title=\"Maestro&#39;s Classic Beard Butter Wisemen&#39;s Blend 8 Ounce\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01MEH9X7S/coteicomthecoteb\">Maestro&#39;s Classic Beard Butter Wisemen&#39;s Blend 8 Ounce</a> &mdash; This is what Coté uses, but you can feel free to skip caring about beard-care for the first two years or so.</li><li><a title=\"GitHub - felipeochoa/rjsx-mode: A JSX major mode for Emacs\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://github.com/felipeochoa/rjsx-mode\">GitHub - felipeochoa/rjsx-mode: A JSX major mode for Emacs</a></li><li><a title=\"Menlo Font\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.cufonfonts.com/en/font/13494/menlo\">Menlo Font</a></li></ul>","summary":"Coté doesn't like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.","date_published":"2017-05-19T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/40b9bbf0-35e3-435e-9009-b52a26edbbc6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25703306,"duration_in_seconds":3069}]},{"id":"583c11c3-78d4-455f-ac78-205953a992cc","title":"Episode 26: Getting over resistance to change","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/26","content_text":"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.","content_html":"<p>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.</p>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2017-05-16T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/583c11c3-78d4-455f-ac78-205953a992cc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":28821405,"duration_in_seconds":3469}]},{"id":"2f99fb2c-c484-48c5-90ef-4a1f79042a59","title":"Episode 25: John Willis on DevOps, inclusion, burn-out, and biz dev","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/25","content_text":"","content_html":"","summary":"Barton George and I talk with John Willis at DevOpsDays Austin 2017.","date_published":"2017-05-11T07:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/2f99fb2c-c484-48c5-90ef-4a1f79042a59.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":7122512,"duration_in_seconds":789}]},{"id":"8b9991da-f805-45b5-aacf-719daf392f2f","title":"Episode 24: Oil and waffles","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/24","content_text":"We hear about the days when Charles was drilling for oil. Also, waffles: \"I suffered years of floppy-waffles.\" We also discuss the deal with kombucha, to no effect, really.\n\nAnd, as always, Charles' emacs configuration tip of the week.Links:The Wheel of Time seriesShow TopicsPlanet Money buys oilThere Will be BloodBig Oil profit margins — Something like 6-7%Avocado OilWhale oil — \"nearly 236,000 whales were killed in the 19th century\"\r\nThe 4-Hour BodyCoté's Belgian waffle iron — Oster CKSTWFBF21 1-1/2-Inch Thick Belgian Flip Waffle Maker, Brushed Stainless SteelThe WirecutterArlo camerasThe SweethomeKombuchaCharles' emacs configuration tip of the week — crux.elAustin Emacs MeetupCharles on the Emacs.el PodcastCoté on The Frontside podcast","content_html":"<p>We hear about the days when Charles was drilling for oil. Also, waffles: &quot;I suffered years of floppy-waffles.&quot; We also discuss the deal with kombucha, to no effect, really.</p>\n\n<p>And, as always, Charles&#39; emacs configuration tip of the week.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"The Wheel of Time series\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time\">The Wheel of Time series</a></li><li><a title=\"Show Topics\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rGnVlXfLDhgrKq9DJX2EOvAvcOBieBBewN5TXjnfHxs/edit#\">Show Topics</a></li><li><a title=\"Planet Money buys oil\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/planet-money-buys-oil\">Planet Money buys oil</a></li><li><a title=\"There Will be Blood\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood\">There Will be Blood</a></li><li><a title=\"Big Oil profit margins\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.forbes.com/2011/05/10/oil-company-earnings.html\">Big Oil profit margins</a> &mdash; Something like 6-7%</li><li><a title=\"Avocado Oil\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado_oil\">Avocado Oil</a></li><li><a title=\"Whale oil\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://io9.gizmodo.com/5930414/1846-the-year-we-hit-peak-sperm-whale-oil\">Whale oil</a> &mdash; \"nearly 236,000 whales were killed in the 19th century\"\r\n</li><li><a title=\"The 4-Hour Body\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://amzn.to/2p889WY\">The 4-Hour Body</a></li><li><a title=\"Coté&#39;s Belgian waffle iron\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://amzn.to/2pqSX7U\">Coté&#39;s Belgian waffle iron</a> &mdash; Oster CKSTWFBF21 1-1/2-Inch Thick Belgian Flip Waffle Maker, Brushed Stainless Steel</li><li><a title=\"The Wirecutter\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://thewirecutter.com/\">The Wirecutter</a></li><li><a title=\"Arlo cameras\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://amzn.to/2oQGMhD\">Arlo cameras</a></li><li><a title=\"The Sweethome\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://thesweethome.com/\">The Sweethome</a></li><li><a title=\"Kombucha\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://mic.com/articles/108502/if-you-re-kind-of-repelled-by-kombucha-you-might-have-the-right-idea#.ZFZyWe1kj\">Kombucha</a></li><li><a title=\"Charles&#39; emacs configuration tip of the week\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://github.com/bbatsov/crux\">Charles&#39; emacs configuration tip of the week</a> &mdash; crux.el</li><li><a title=\"Austin Emacs Meetup\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/\">Austin Emacs Meetup</a></li><li><a title=\"Charles on the Emacs.el Podcast\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Emacsel\">Charles on the Emacs.el Podcast</a></li><li><a title=\"Coté on The Frontside podcast\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://frontsidethepodcast.simplecast.fm/66\">Coté on The Frontside podcast</a></li></ul>","summary":"We hear about the days when Charles was drilling for oil. Also, waffles: \"I suffered years of floppy-waffles.\"","date_published":"2017-04-27T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/8b9991da-f805-45b5-aacf-719daf392f2f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":25473580,"duration_in_seconds":3003}]},{"id":"345f16f3-25c0-404a-b118-476d7f1b42c2","title":"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.”","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/23","content_text":"When you travel, people have a lot of thoughts about Texas.Links:Skype Call RecorderTopic listThat podcast we used to do“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” — It was Davy Crockett.\"Don't mess with Texas\" — “The campaign is credited with reducing litter on Texas highways roughly 72% between 1986 and 1990.” O'Tacos — Panini \"tacos\" in Paris.Cooper's now in AustinThe Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto KasperOriginal My Little Pony theme songSouth American pan pipe soundsHouston, Dallas, and San Antonio are top 10 US cities, by population — Austin is #11.Who invented the breakfast taco?Header image of blue bonnets from rubengarciajrphotography","content_html":"<p>When you travel, people have a lot of thoughts about Texas.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Skype Call Recorder\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/\">Skype Call Recorder</a></li><li><a title=\"Topic list\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rGnVlXfLDhgrKq9DJX2EOvAvcOBieBBewN5TXjnfHxs/edit?usp=sharing\">Topic list</a></li><li><a title=\"That podcast we used to do\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired/\">That podcast we used to do</a></li><li><a title=\"“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/you-may-all-go-to-hell-and-9-more-great-texas-quotes/\">“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”</a> &mdash; It was Davy Crockett.</li><li><a title=\"&quot;Don&#39;t mess with Texas&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas\">&quot;Don&#39;t mess with Texas&quot;</a> &mdash; “The campaign is credited with reducing litter on Texas highways roughly 72% between 1986 and 1990.” </li><li><a title=\"O&#39;Tacos\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.o-tacos.fr/\">O&#39;Tacos</a> &mdash; Panini \"tacos\" in Paris.</li><li><a title=\"Cooper&#39;s now in Austin\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://coopersbbqaustin.com/\">Cooper&#39;s now in Austin</a></li><li><a title=\"The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.splendidtable.org/\">The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper</a></li><li><a title=\"Original My Little Pony theme song\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wscI-8_ZhU\">Original My Little Pony theme song</a></li><li><a title=\"South American pan pipe sounds\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpChEF2gJ1Y\">South American pan pipe sounds</a></li><li><a title=\"Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio are top 10 US cities, by population\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population\">Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio are top 10 US cities, by population</a> &mdash; Austin is #11.</li><li><a title=\"Who invented the breakfast taco?\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/can-any-texas-city-claim-the-breakfast-taco-as-its-own/\">Who invented the breakfast taco?</a></li><li><a title=\"Header image of blue bonnets from rubengarciajrphotography\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrphotographyme/6239121221/\">Header image of blue bonnets from rubengarciajrphotography</a></li></ul>","summary":"When you travel, people have a lot of thoughts about Texas.","date_published":"2017-04-11T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/345f16f3-25c0-404a-b118-476d7f1b42c2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":20644370,"duration_in_seconds":2298}]},{"id":"e868215a-6025-49ee-9b5f-450653cd8ed6","title":"Episode 22: The Regular Show, Apple’s problem’s, Enterprise tech news blows","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/22","content_text":"Charles &amp; 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.Links:ScreenheroOracle's financials, past three years — They're pretty much \"flat.\"The Software Paradox — Among other things, Stephen O'Grady analyzes Oracle's finances and what it says about their software portfolio and what companies are now buying, i.e., SaaS.Kubernetes tool saves eBay from its OpenStack woesKara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show451 Research","content_html":"<p>Charles &amp; 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.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Screenhero\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://screenhero.com/\">Screenhero</a></li><li><a title=\"Oracle&#39;s financials, past three years\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AORCL&amp;fstype=ii&amp;ei=-TrVWJGhD4eqjAGS4auAAQ\">Oracle&#39;s financials, past three years</a> &mdash; They're pretty much \"flat.\"</li><li><a title=\"The Software Paradox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://amzn.to/2nwbZsy\">The Software Paradox</a> &mdash; Among other things, Stephen O'Grady analyzes Oracle's finances and what it says about their software portfolio and what companies are now buying, i.e., SaaS.</li><li><a title=\"Kubernetes tool saves eBay from its OpenStack woes\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.infoworld.com/article/3154936/open-source-tools/kubernetes-tool-saves-ebay-from-its-openstack-woes.html\">Kubernetes tool saves eBay from its OpenStack woes</a></li><li><a title=\"Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/kara-swisher-gives-a-master-class-on-reporting-and-interviewing-49054448\">Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show</a></li><li><a title=\"451 Research\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://451research.com/\">451 Research</a></li></ul>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2017-03-24T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/e868215a-6025-49ee-9b5f-450653cd8ed6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":23953130,"duration_in_seconds":2912}]},{"id":"9d34cdea-73ab-474c-84b2-e6669a67daa6","title":"Episode 21: Biz Dev, Defining an application, the atheist eagle scout, with JJ Asghar","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/21","content_text":"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.\n\nYou might also know him from his \"being an introvert at conferences\" talk.\n\nCheck him out in Twitter @jjasgharSpecial Guest: JJ Asghar.","content_html":"<p>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 &quot;business development&quot; person at Chef.</p>\n\n<p>You might also know him from <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqwgmePMEw4\" rel=\"nofollow\">his &quot;being an introvert at conferences&quot; talk</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Check him out in Twitter <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jjasghar\" rel=\"nofollow\">@jjasghar</a></p><p>Special Guest: JJ Asghar.</p>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2017-02-11T07:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9d34cdea-73ab-474c-84b2-e6669a67daa6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25482136,"duration_in_seconds":3074}]},{"id":"e6087971-7a57-478c-9a0b-a8c0de30f7ab","title":"Episode 20: Reading tech company financials, with Rachel Stephens","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/20","content_text":"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.\n\nFind her in Twitter (@rstephensme) and on her RedMonk blog. See also this fine mound of cheese.Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.","content_html":"<p>What&#39;s up with all those cash numbers in quarterly reports, and what&#39;s the deal with &quot;analyst expectations&quot;? In this brief episode I talk with RedMonk&#39;s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/rstephensme\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rachel Stephens</a> to get some quick tips on what to do with all that stuff.</p>\n\n<p>Find her in Twitter (<a href=\"https://twitter.com/rstephensme\" rel=\"nofollow\">@rstephensme</a>) and on <a href=\"http://redmonk.com/rstephens/\" rel=\"nofollow\">her RedMonk blog</a>. See also <a href=\"https://twitter.com/rstephensme/status/824738574146879488\" rel=\"nofollow\">this fine mound of cheese</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.</p>","summary":"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](https://twitter.com/rstephensme) to get some quick tips on what to do with all that stuff.","date_published":"2017-02-07T10:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/e6087971-7a57-478c-9a0b-a8c0de30f7ab.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":3870456,"duration_in_seconds":416}]},{"id":"9b6e24e9-4543-4cd4-990c-dd4e9f4a2cbb","title":"Episode 19: Computers are easy. Humans are Hard. With Bridget Kromhout","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/19","content_text":"We discuss all the human and process changes needed to do good things with computers.Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.Links:Video recording of this episode — The livestreamed recording we did.","content_html":"<p>We discuss all the human and process changes needed to do good things with computers.</p><p>Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Video recording of this episode\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/videos/10155012857744169/\">Video recording of this episode</a> &mdash; The livestreamed recording we did.</li></ul>","summary":"We discuss all the human and process changes needed to do good things with computers.","date_published":"2017-01-27T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/9b6e24e9-4543-4cd4-990c-dd4e9f4a2cbb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15574430,"duration_in_seconds":1872}]},{"id":"55c3e773-a9e2-4a91-bef4-ec570a51efbf","title":"Episode 18: Reactive applications, with Josh Long","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/18","content_text":"Josh Long and I discuss “reactive programming.\"Special Guest: Josh Long.Links:Video recording of this episode — The livestreamed video of Josh and I's talk.","content_html":"<p>Josh Long and I discuss “reactive programming.&quot;</p><p>Special Guest: Josh Long.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Video recording of this episode\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/videos/10155012727969169/\">Video recording of this episode</a> &mdash; The livestreamed video of Josh and I's talk.</li></ul>","summary":"Josh Long and I discuss “reactive programming.\"","date_published":"2017-01-27T14:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/55c3e773-a9e2-4a91-bef4-ec570a51efbf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12777044,"duration_in_seconds":1534}]},{"id":"cce34e1c-fe72-49fd-85c5-6cd985ffd3a1","title":"Episode 17: Ignoring bad code on purpose","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/17","content_text":"Sometimes you have to live with bad code. No one will let you change it. There’s many good and bad reasons, so make sure you’re consciously making the decision instead of accidentally doing it. I discuss some reasons people would keep bad code, how management should think through it, and then some options for coping as needed.\n\nIt was Joel, back in 2000, who said not to re-write code.\n\nI recorded this with a Mevo, hence the kind of echo'y noise. See the video over in Facebook where I LIVESTREAMED IT!","content_html":"<p>Sometimes you have to live with bad code. No one will let you change it. There’s many good and bad reasons, so make sure you’re consciously making the decision instead of accidentally doing it. I discuss some reasons people would keep bad code, how management should think through it, and then some options for coping as needed.</p>\n\n<p>It was <a href=\"https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel, back in 2000, who said not to re-write code</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I recorded this with a <a href=\"http://amzn.to/2gIMFM3\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mevo</a>, hence the kind of echo&#39;y noise. See the video <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/videos/10154853806469169/\" rel=\"nofollow\">over in Facebook where I LIVESTREAMED IT</a>!</p>","summary":"Some reasons people would keep bad code, how management should think through it, and then some options for coping as needed.","date_published":"2016-12-13T16:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/cce34e1c-fe72-49fd-85c5-6cd985ffd3a1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":6434440,"duration_in_seconds":682}]},{"id":"09772981-ad31-4cf4-b50f-c7623a72655c","title":"Episode 16: Pair programing doesn't stink","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/16","content_text":"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.Links: My Pairing column from October at The Register — The comments section is especially good for common sentiment about pair programming.Charles Lowell — We used to do a podcast.Gartner survey on pair programming adoption — I got the number wrong: it's actually around 20%, not just 10%. Mark Ardito goes over HCSC’s astonishing success with pair programming — They thought it'd take 12-15 weeks to get their MVP done, but it actually took 5.5 to 6 weeks we finish.Selecting people for pair programming and their enthusiastic response — More from Mark Ardito on HCSC's adoption of pair programming. Phil Horowitz talks about how exhausting pairing is at first — At Perforce: \"This makes pair programming intense, especially at the beginning. At the end of the first day, I couldn't go home. Before I could face humans again, I put my phone on airplane mode, ignored my usual online accounts, and went to the gym for two hours of self-imposed isolation.\"","content_html":"<p>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.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\" My Pairing column from October at The Register\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/18/pairing_programming_youll_never_guess_what_happens_next/\"> My Pairing column from October at The Register</a> &mdash; The comments section is especially good for common sentiment about pair programming.</li><li><a title=\"Charles Lowell\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://twitter.com/cowboyd\">Charles Lowell</a> &mdash; We used to do a podcast.</li><li><a title=\"Gartner survey on pair programming adoption\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/cote/better-ways-of-doing-software/19\">Gartner survey on pair programming adoption</a> &mdash; I got the number wrong: it's actually around 20%, not just 10%.</li><li><a title=\" Mark Ardito goes over HCSC’s astonishing success with pair programming\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGNlSCquZIc&amp;t=11m05s\"> Mark Ardito goes over HCSC’s astonishing success with pair programming</a> &mdash; They thought it'd take 12-15 weeks to get their MVP done, but it actually took 5.5 to 6 weeks we finish.</li><li><a title=\"Selecting people for pair programming and their enthusiastic response\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGNlSCquZIc&amp;t=26m35s\">Selecting people for pair programming and their enthusiastic response</a> &mdash; More from Mark Ardito on HCSC's adoption of pair programming.</li><li><a title=\" Phil Horowitz talks about how exhausting pairing is at first\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.informationweek.com/devops/project-management/adventures-in-pair-programming/a/d-id/1325577\"> Phil Horowitz talks about how exhausting pairing is at first</a> &mdash; At Perforce: \"This makes pair programming intense, especially at the beginning. At the end of the first day, I couldn't go home. Before I could face humans again, I put my phone on airplane mode, ignored my usual online accounts, and went to the gym for two hours of self-imposed isolation.\"</li></ul>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2016-11-03T09:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/09772981-ad31-4cf4-b50f-c7623a72655c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":7661160,"duration_in_seconds":428}]},{"id":"1703d090-6535-4deb-af98-cca9340a8a25","title":"Episode 15: Getting executives to fail fast","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/15","content_text":"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.Links:Failing fast for the uptight — One of my explanations of \"failing fast\": it actually means learning; here, a recording of a March 2015 talk.Getting Started — picking your first cloud native projects, or, Every Digital Transformation Starts with One Project — My tips on picking a series of small projects to build up internal momentum to do larger ones.Digital transformation: the what, the why and the how — The sad donut: \"Less than 25% of organizations that participated in a recent 451 Research survey (451 Research VoCUL, April 2016) said they had a well-defined formal digital transformation strategy.\"","content_html":"<p>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.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title=\"Failing fast for the uptight\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://cote.io/2015/03/13/fail-fast/\">Failing fast for the uptight</a> &mdash; One of my explanations of \"failing fast\": it actually means learning; here, a recording of a March 2015 talk.</li><li><a title=\"Getting Started — picking your first cloud native projects, or, Every Digital Transformation Starts with One Project\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.6rkky4kst\">Getting Started — picking your first cloud native projects, or, Every Digital Transformation Starts with One Project</a> &mdash; My tips on picking a series of small projects to build up internal momentum to do larger ones.</li><li><a title=\"Digital transformation: the what, the why and the how\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90066&amp;referrer=marketing&amp;utm_campaign=2016_market_insight&amp;utm_content=apply_for_trial&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=website_homepage&amp;utm_term=data_platforms_analytics\">Digital transformation: the what, the why and the how</a> &mdash; The sad donut: \"Less than 25% of organizations that participated in a recent 451 Research survey (451 Research VoCUL, April 2016) said they had a well-defined formal digital transformation strategy.\"</li></ul>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2016-11-02T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/1703d090-6535-4deb-af98-cca9340a8a25.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":7210036,"duration_in_seconds":383}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/276815094","title":"Episode 14: Building a cloud in 30 minutes, metrics are a distraction","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/14","content_text":"\"I get to see your face during this podcast,\" Matt says as we start talking about SpringOne Platform. Both of us were there and we recap Matt's talk on managing 10 Pivotal Cloud Foundry instances, namely, how they figured out using a Concourse pipeline to automate much of that management. We discuss \"how to do the transformation\" talks we liked, like the Citi talk. \n\nIn addition to some other random digital transformation topics, we also discuss how HR policies are struggling to change with things like pair programming and DevOps.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nMatt Curry: @mattjcurry\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 643","content_html":"<p>&quot;I get to see your face during this podcast,&quot; Matt says as we start talking about SpringOne Platform. Both of us were there and we recap Matt&#39;s talk on managing 10 Pivotal Cloud Foundry instances, namely, how they figured out using a Concourse pipeline to automate much of that management. We discuss &quot;how to do the transformation&quot; talks we liked, like <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/status/760526379590950912\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Citi talk</a>. </p>\n\n<p>In addition to some other random digital transformation topics, we also discuss how HR policies are struggling to change with things like pair programming and DevOps.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show-notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Curry: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 643</p>","summary":"Managing multiple CI/CD pipelines, and random digital transformation at Allstate.","date_published":"2016-08-02T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/fef18d87-2f25-4622-ad0d-9616ac26a30d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48651747,"duration_in_seconds":2960}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/276657096","title":"Episode 13: The changing nature of open source & Loco Moco, with Barton George","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/13","content_text":"Summary\n\nI've had a theory that the hard-line philosophy of open source has softened in recent times. Rather than thinking closed source is to be avoided at all costs, I think most developer types are a lot more willing to accept closed source bits mixed in with open source bits. That is, open core has \"won.\" I discuss this topic with my long time pal, Barton George, while at SpringOne Platform, plus the work he's doing in the developer and OSS worlds at Dell.\n\nWe also talk about Hawaiian food.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow Notes and Links\n\n\nFind Barton George at bartongeorge.net and in Twitter at @barton808.\nCuisine of Hawaii\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 219.Special Guest: Barton George.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>I&#39;ve had a theory that the hard-line philosophy of open source has softened in recent times. Rather than thinking closed source is to be avoided at all costs, I think most developer types are a lot more willing to accept closed source bits mixed in with open source bits. That is, open core has &quot;won.&quot; I discuss this topic with my long time pal, Barton George, while at SpringOne Platform, plus the work he&#39;s doing in the developer and OSS worlds at Dell.</p>\n\n<p>We also talk about Hawaiian food.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show Notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Find Barton George at <a href=\"https://bartongeorge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">bartongeorge.net</a> and in Twitter at <a href=\"https://twitter.com/barton808\" rel=\"nofollow\">@barton808</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Hawaii\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cuisine of Hawaii</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 219.</p><p>Special Guest: Barton George.</p>","summary":"The victory of open source in the infrastructure software space. Plus, crazy Hawaiian food.","date_published":"2016-07-31T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/be6ae0b1-37fe-4f0b-b64e-d88d86d5f663.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":17608275,"duration_in_seconds":1019}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273721097","title":"Episode 12: Introducing cloud at Express Scripts, with Brian Gregory","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/12","content_text":"Introducing cloud in a large enterprise can be challenging, and the technology is usually the least of your worries. Matt and I talk with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts who's been working on transforming Express Scripts to a more cloud native approach to IT and tell us some the history and some of the tactics that he and team have been working through.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow Notes and Links\n\n\nMatt's CF Summit talk, \"Building a Brand Around a Technology and Cultural Transformation\". If you want to go, use the code CF16COTE to get 20% off CF Summit registration. \nBrian Gregory with Express Scripts - check out Brian in Twitter (@MrBrianGregory) or LinkedIn.\nExpress Scripts - 30,000+ employees, $100bn in revenue, 20th largest company in the US, \nStarting with a large, mature IT portfolio including lots of assets from M&amp;A.\nWinning over the various stakeholders and groups, including developers and enterprise architecture council.\nWorking with legacy services.\nMatt Curry: @mattjcurry\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\nSee my promos and discount page for conference discount codes and other stuff\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 529.Special Guest: Brian Gregory.","content_html":"<p>Introducing cloud in a large enterprise can be challenging, and the technology is usually the least of your worries. Matt and I talk with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts who&#39;s been working on transforming Express Scripts to a more cloud native approach to IT and tell us some the history and some of the tactics that he and team have been working through.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show Notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Matt&#39;s CF Summit talk, <a href=\"https://cfsummit2016.sched.org/event/6aKz/building-a-brand-around-a-technology-and-cultural-transformation-matthew-curry-allstate\" rel=\"nofollow\">&quot;Building a Brand Around a Technology and Cultural Transformation&quot;</a>. If you want to go, use the code CF16COTE to get 20% off <a href=\"https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/attend/?summitId=10016\" rel=\"nofollow\">CF Summit registration</a>. </li>\n<li>Brian Gregory with Express Scripts - check out <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrBrianGregory\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian in Twitter (@MrBrianGregory)</a> or <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgregory\" rel=\"nofollow\">LinkedIn</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Scripts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Express Scripts</a> - 30,000+ employees, $100bn in revenue, 20th largest company in the US, </li>\n<li>Starting with a large, mature IT portfolio including lots of assets from M&amp;A.</li>\n<li>Winning over the various stakeholders and groups, including developers and enterprise architecture council.</li>\n<li>Working with legacy services.</li>\n<li>Matt Curry: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n<li>See <a href=\"https://cote.io/promos/\" rel=\"nofollow\">my promos and discount page for conference discount codes and other stuff</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 529.</p><p>Special Guest: Brian Gregory.</p>","summary":"Launching the cloud native strategy at Express Scripts International.","date_published":"2016-04-25T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/8905d74a-6ac0-4a59-baa4-74ec0cbd881f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51882218,"duration_in_seconds":2869}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273719966","title":"Episode 11: How do we do things we would never, ordinarily do?","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/11","content_text":"Summary\n\nMatt and I talk about lessons learned from almost a year of helping transform IT at Allstate. When it comes to scaling up agile and cloud-think the real challenges are in functions other than development, like budgeting, planning, training, hiring, and how the overall IT department is organized. We discuss those topics - esp. budgeting! - and also how to set one's personal expectations about going on the transformation journey. Then we discuss an upcoming column on mine in The Register on the benefits of small batches thinking.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow Notes and Links\n\n\nAfter a year, the question becomes \"can it scale?\"\nHow do we do: Budgeting, training, hiring, how do we organize teams\nWe only plan with good information, not bad information.\nYou need to establish an overall vision, but avoid being too specific on tactics. For example, with a claim application, we know the general product, the vertical, the line of business we have roughly an idea of what claims are, who the customer is, and what that experience is like. Delivering a better experience for claims, what that feels like, and how do we measure it - these things we don't know perfectly up-front, so we have lots of discipline around iterating and experimenting to deliver good product.\nHow budgeting changes in this small batches approach.\nWith a lot of this, you can't talk someone into doing these things up-front. They have to experience it first hand: you have to walk them through it.\n\"Sometimes 'nothing' is a big win.\"\nCoté's DevOps columns at The Register.\nNot mentioned, but good thinking to be had in Larman's Law\nMatt Curry: @mattjcurry\nCoté: @cote, cote.ios of small batches thinking. \n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 477.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>Matt and I talk about lessons learned from almost a year of helping transform IT at Allstate. When it comes to scaling up agile and cloud-think the real challenges are in functions other than development, like budgeting, planning, training, hiring, and how the overall IT department is organized. We discuss those topics - esp. budgeting! - and also how to set one&#39;s personal expectations about going on the transformation journey. Then we discuss an upcoming column on mine in The Register on the benefits of small batches thinking.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show Notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>After a year, the question becomes &quot;can it scale?&quot;</li>\n<li>How do we do: Budgeting, training, hiring, how do we organize teams</li>\n<li>We only plan with good information, not bad information.</li>\n<li>You need to establish an overall vision, but avoid being too specific on tactics. For example, with a claim application, we know the general product, the vertical, the line of business we have roughly an idea of what claims are, who the customer is, and what that experience is like. Delivering a better experience for claims, what that feels like, and how do we measure it - these things we don&#39;t know perfectly up-front, so we have lots of discipline around iterating and experimenting to deliver good product.</li>\n<li>How budgeting changes in this small batches approach.</li>\n<li>With a lot of this, you can&#39;t talk someone into doing these things up-front. They have to experience it first hand: you have to walk them through it.</li>\n<li>&quot;Sometimes &#39;nothing&#39; is a big win.&quot;</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/2805/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cot&eacute;&#39;s DevOps columns at The Register</a>.</li>\n<li>Not mentioned, but good thinking to be had in <a href=\"http://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Larman%27s_Laws_of_Organizational_Behavior\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larman&#39;s Law</a></li>\n<li>Matt Curry: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a>s of small batches thinking. </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 477.</p>","summary":"Lessons learned from almost a year of helping transform IT at Allstate.","date_published":"2016-01-31T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/44ceef19-de0c-4900-93a7-72abe39c55c1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51601954,"duration_in_seconds":3144}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273719761","title":"Episode 10: Doing the DevOps at National Instruments and BazaarVoice, talking with Ernest Mueller ","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/10","content_text":"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.\n\nDownload directly, listen above, or subscribe to the feed: iTunes, RSS Feed.\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nIf we automate, we'll loose our close touch of the systems.\nBeing on call, globally, back when there were actual pagers.\nPersuading people to change with tyranny, demo's, trust, and any other tactics you can get your introverted mind around.\nRecording Ernest's talk on all this, from DOES 2015: DevOps Transformations At National Instruments and Bazaarvoice (And Infosec!)\nFrom DevOpsDays Austin 2012, here's a panel discussion of DevOps at NI.\nSlides for DevOps Transformations at National Instruments and BazaarVoice, his presentation on DevOps at NI and BazaarVoice.\nOne of the most comprehensive presentation on DevOps from Ernest and the other DevOps Austin crew.\nErnest Mueller: @ernestmueller, The Agile Admin blog.\nMatt Curry: @mattjcurry\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 655.Special Guest: Ernest Mueller.","content_html":"<p>Ernest Mueller has worked helped introduce DevOps in several organizations and has been talking about those stories at two companies he&#39;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.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://traffic.libsyn.com/cote/LordOfComputing010.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow\">Download directly</a>, listen above, or subscribe to the feed: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a>.</p>\n\n<h1>Show-notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>If we automate, we&#39;ll loose our close touch of the systems.</li>\n<li>Being on call, globally, back when there were actual pagers.</li>\n<li>Persuading people to change with tyranny, demo&#39;s, trust, and any other tactics you can get your introverted mind around.</li>\n<li>Recording Ernest&#39;s talk on all this, from DOES 2015: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ry40h1UAyE\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOps Transformations At National Instruments and Bazaarvoice (And Infosec!)</a></li>\n<li>From DevOpsDays Austin 2012, <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/62931927\" rel=\"nofollow\">here&#39;s a panel discussion of DevOps at NI</a>.</li>\n<li>Slides for <a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/mxyzplk/devops-transformations\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOps Transformations at National Instruments and BazaarVoice</a>, his presentation on DevOps at NI and BazaarVoice.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.slideshare.net/mxyzplk/devops-state-of-the-union-2015\" rel=\"nofollow\">One of the most comprehensive presentation on DevOps</a> from Ernest and the other DevOps Austin crew.</li>\n<li>Ernest Mueller: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ernestmueller\" rel=\"nofollow\">@ernestmueller</a>, <a href=\"http://theagileadmin.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Agile Admin</a> blog.</li>\n<li>Matt Curry: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 655.</p><p>Special Guest: Ernest Mueller.</p>","summary":"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. ","date_published":"2015-12-01T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/2a1dd225-e567-4c20-9a88-e797e79313b6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47150074,"duration_in_seconds":2866}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273719092","title":"Episode 9: The life of microservices in the F500","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/9","content_text":"Summary\n\nYou don't hear too many stories about microservices in \"normal\" companies. In this episode, I talk with Nate Foreman about microservices-driven work he's been doing with a large enterprise recently. We discuss the goods and the bads of this approach and, overall, how it's working out. It's a good discussion of how all the usual \"cloud native\" concept actually play out in the real world.\n\n(As you can guess, it's not actually an \"action figure\" company, we just used that example to mask the actual company.)\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow Notes and Links\n\n\nDevOpsDays Detroit\nNate in LinkedIn.\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 529.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>You don&#39;t hear too many stories about microservices in &quot;normal&quot; companies. In this episode, I talk with Nate Foreman about microservices-driven work he&#39;s been doing with a large enterprise recently. We discuss the goods and the bads of this approach and, overall, how it&#39;s working out. It&#39;s a good discussion of how all the usual &quot;cloud native&quot; concept actually play out in the real world.</p>\n\n<p>(As you can guess, it&#39;s not actually an &quot;action figure&quot; company, we just used that example to mask the actual company.)</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show Notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-detroit/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOpsDays Detroit</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-foreman-87660661\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nate in LinkedIn</a>.</li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 529.</p>","summary":"Introducing microservices into large organizations.","date_published":"2015-12-01T00:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/65a3e2d1-5396-41d8-83da-17417c570444.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36513392,"duration_in_seconds":2104}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273718762","title":"Episode 8: Transforming how the US government does software, Diego Lapiduz","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/8","content_text":"Summary\n\nWhat organization could be larger than the US Federal government? Not only that, the chance to transform how software is done in the government has perhaps one of the largest possible impacts of transforming any \"IT department.\" In this episode, 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. We discuss the background of 18F and the broader government initiatives to transform how software is done and also walk through some of the learnings 18F has had in trying to make such a huge transformation.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nHiring is the biggest problem around government processes.\nTo build empathy and different teams working together, try to tackle a common goal.\nBuilding credibly by demonstrating that your method works.\nThe Ugly Baby Problem - winning over people who think they're already doing it right.\nMeasuring success.\n18F in github. github.com/18F and 18f.gsa.gov.\nExamples of project: NotAlone.gov, The College Score Card.\nExplaining \"failing fast\" in government. People start to understand it as they have more experience.\nHow open source is helpful here, how non-government folks get involved and contribute to the open source projects.\nDiego's recent talk at the Cloud Foundry Summit 2014.\nAs more background on IT change in the government, check out this overview from Mikey Dickerson at OSCON 2015.\nDiego Lapiduz: @dlapiduz\nMatt Curry: @mattjcurry\nCoté: @cote, cote.io\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 458.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>What organization could be larger than the US Federal government? Not only that, the chance to transform how software is done in the government has perhaps one of the largest possible impacts of transforming any &quot;IT department.&quot; In this episode, Matt and Cot&eacute; talk with Diego Lapiduz who works in the GSA&#39;s 18F organization helping government agencies develop their software in new, more agile and cloud-driven ways. We discuss the background of 18F and the broader government initiatives to transform how software is done and also walk through some of the learnings 18F has had in trying to make such a huge transformation.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show-notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Hiring is the biggest problem around government processes.</li>\n<li>To build empathy and different teams working together, try to tackle a common goal.</li>\n<li>Building credibly by demonstrating that your method works.</li>\n<li>The Ugly Baby Problem - winning over people who think they&#39;re already doing it right.</li>\n<li>Measuring success.</li>\n<li>18F in <a href=\"https://github.com/18F\" rel=\"nofollow\">github. github.com/18F</a> and <a href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\">18f.gsa.gov</a>.</li>\n<li>Examples of project: <a href=\"https://www.notalone.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\">NotAlone.gov</a>, <a href=\"https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The College Score Card</a>.</li>\n<li>Explaining <a href=\"http://cote.io/blog/fail-fast-recording\" rel=\"nofollow\">&quot;failing fast&quot;</a> in government. People start to understand it as they have more experience.</li>\n<li>How open source is helpful here, how non-government folks get involved and contribute to the open source projects.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598c1pB39Ms\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diego&#39;s recent talk</a> at the Cloud Foundry Summit 2014.</li>\n<li>As more background on IT change in the government, check out <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6nMQg9qs7k\" rel=\"nofollow\">this overview from Mikey Dickerson at OSCON 2015</a>.</li>\n<li>Diego Lapiduz: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/dlapiduz\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dlapiduz</a></li>\n<li>Matt Curry: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@mattjcurry</a></li>\n<li>Cot&eacute;: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote/\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a>, <a href=\"http://cote.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">cote.io</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 458.</p>","summary":"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.","date_published":"2015-09-30T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/77e4706e-fe1e-493f-9622-aa2c8b036553.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46443326,"duration_in_seconds":2822}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273718432","title":"Episode 7: Getting beyond \"the comfort of the number.\"","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/7","content_text":"Summary\n\nIn this first part of a new series, Matt Curry and I discuss many of the problems with transforming how a large company uses IT. From dealing with businesses cases, the finance department, and changing how the business thinks about using IT, there are numerous organizational change problems to chew on. This launches a new series of episodes in Lords of Computing where Matt and I will talk interview various folks out there who are going through transformation at their company. We're interested in hearing what's work and not worked for them.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow Notes and Links\n\n\nMatt in Twitter, Coté in Twitter\nAvatar pictures\nExcel is a white-collar battering ram.\nManagement as programming the orginization\nThe Wolf in CIO's Clothing\nDespite a mandate, you have to convince people to do their job\nLeading the Transformation and A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development\nNegotiating a business case - finding out what's \"really\" needed.\n\"The Business doesn't know what they actually want.\"\nGetting the business to understand programming, and vice-versa.\nHaving a roadmap vs. documented features - flow vs. fully specified goal\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 558.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>In this first part of a new series, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Curry</a> and I discuss many of the problems with transforming how a large company uses IT. From dealing with businesses cases, the finance department, and changing how the business thinks about using IT, there are numerous organizational change problems to chew on. This launches a new series of episodes in Lords of Computing where Matt and I will talk interview various folks out there who are going through transformation at their company. We&#39;re interested in hearing what&#39;s work and not worked for them.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show Notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattjcurry\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt in Twitter</a>, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cot&eacute; in Twitter</a></li>\n<li>Avatar pictures</li>\n<li>Excel is a white-collar battering ram.</li>\n<li>Management as programming the orginization</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/media_products/wolfcio/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Wolf in CIO&#39;s Clothing</em></a></li>\n<li>Despite a mandate, you have to convince people to do their job</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1942788010/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1942788010&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=T77PBOWRTZQF37K4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Leading the Transformation</em></a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321821726/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0321821726&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=DFE6XRMJZ6YJ2BXU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development</em></a></li>\n<li>Negotiating a business case - finding out what&#39;s &quot;really&quot; needed.</li>\n<li>&quot;The Business doesn&#39;t know what they actually want.&quot;</li>\n<li>Getting the business to understand programming, and vice-versa.</li>\n<li>Having a roadmap vs. documented features - flow vs. fully specified goal</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 558.</p>","summary":"The problems with transforming how a large company uses IT.","date_published":"2015-09-16T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/b90f2fa9-8a32-4a33-8b99-b8db5a787693.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":63968901,"duration_in_seconds":3917}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/282563035","title":"Episode 6: Try to avoid killing your acquisition","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/6","content_text":"Summary\n\nAfter catching up about movies and OpenStack, John and I discuss how difficult it is to properly integrate acquired companies into the larger company. We also discuss what VCs are looking for to say yes now: a good team, it seems.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow notes and Links\n\n\nAloha.\nState of OpenStack talk.\nAndrew Shafer's To Whom it May Concern\nIf A rounds are easy, what are investors looking for?\nThe three P's: people, process, philosophy/priorities\nToyota Kata - Learning to See.\nThat Matt Curry/Andrew Shafer conversation, the original Hangouts video.\nDevOpsDays DC talk on government DevOps use?\nDevOpsDays AMS up next\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 500.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>After catching up about movies and OpenStack, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/botchagalupe\" rel=\"nofollow\">John</a> and I discuss how difficult it is to properly integrate acquired companies into the larger company. We also discuss what VCs are looking for to say yes now: a good team, it seems.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1243974/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aloha</a>.</li>\n<li>State of OpenStack talk.</li>\n<li>Andrew Shafer&#39;s To Whom it May Concern</li>\n<li>If A rounds are easy, what are investors looking for?</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://economia.icaew.com/opinion/july-2013/the-three-ps-of-innovation\" rel=\"nofollow\">The three P&#39;s</a>: people, process, philosophy/priorities</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071635238/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0071635238&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=ULAFBAQEAPIPHEUY\" rel=\"nofollow\">Toyota Kata</a> - <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966784308/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0966784308&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=YFRSZW7TN3WG4M7A\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learning to See</a>.</li>\n<li>That Matt Curry/Andrew Shafer conversation, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihG0VUCaAFk\" rel=\"nofollow\">the original Hangouts video</a>.</li>\n<li>DevOpsDays DC talk on government DevOps use?</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2015-amsterdam/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOpsDays AMS up next</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 500.</p>","summary":"After catching up about movies and OpenStack, John Willis and I discuss how difficult it is to properly integrate acquired companies into the larger company. We also discuss what VCs are looking for to say yes now: a good team, it seems.","date_published":"2015-06-14T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/134ca866-5028-43de-997e-7739e744f488.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46086246,"duration_in_seconds":3764}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273716824","title":"Episode 5: When the practice of using the tool is novel, thought-lording new technologies","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/5","content_text":"We discuss how you (slowly) introduce new technologies into the market by looking at past tech cycles John has gone through. We also catch-up on the Craft conference and John’s travels in Europe.\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nThe Bruce Sterling Web 2.0 European Conference Circuit\nCraft conference Prezi \nConsul, Teraform, etc.\nJohnaform\nHow do you install the thing, how do you fix the thing?\nDevOps Weekly email list.\nThe 5 why's of cloud\nDamon and those guys.\nSimon Wardly's evolution of practice\n\"The practice of using the tool is novel.\"\nWhen the wave finally broke\nDefined vs. constrained by the tools you use.\nLearning to See\nHow does this compare to the rise of VMware?\nDon't be constrained by billing.\nHow are you measured?\nBruge, beer museum, churches, chocolate and beer\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 337.","content_html":"<p>We discuss how you (slowly) introduce new technologies into the market by looking at past tech cycles John has gone through. We also catch-up on the Craft conference and John’s travels in Europe.</p>\n\n<p>Show-notes and Links</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Bruce Sterling Web 2.0 European Conference Circuit</li>\n<li>Craft conference Prezi </li>\n<li>Consul, Teraform, etc.</li>\n<li>Johnaform</li>\n<li>How do you install the thing, how do you fix the thing?</li>\n<li>DevOps Weekly email list.</li>\n<li>The 5 why&#39;s of cloud</li>\n<li>Damon and those guys.</li>\n<li>Simon Wardly&#39;s evolution of practice</li>\n<li>&quot;The practice of using the tool is novel.&quot;</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://interconnected.org/home/2015/04/18/the_wave\" rel=\"nofollow\">When the wave finally broke</a></li>\n<li>Defined vs. constrained by the tools you use.</li>\n<li>Learning to See</li>\n<li>How does this compare to the rise of VMware?</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/590896369222737920\" rel=\"nofollow\">Don&#39;t be constrained by billing</a>.</li>\n<li>How are you measured?</li>\n<li>Bruge, beer museum, churches, chocolate and beer</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 337.</p>","summary":"We discuss how you (slowly) introduce new technologies into the market by looking at past tech cycles John has gone through. We also catch-up on the Craft conference and John’s travels in Europe.\r\n\r\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 337.","date_published":"2015-04-27T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/0d245871-303d-432c-947d-529b7f07fb50.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57861219,"duration_in_seconds":4736}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273716002","title":"Episode 4: \"I have become the hustler,\" Robert Brook","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/4","content_text":"Summary\n\nIt can take a long time to get \"the mainstream\" to use new technologies. One would assume that this would be true in supporting the government, as Robert Brook does in his day job. In this brief episode, over the din and bottle collection activities at Monkigras, I catch up with him on just that topic and how he tries to manage being a change agent for the benefit of the UK Parliament.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow notes and Links\n\n\nRoland R09 vs. the Zoom H4n.\nMonkigras 2015, London\nRobert Brook, working at the UK Parliament. What does this guy do exactly?\nReducing friction in the existing systems. How does one do this?\nDigital enterprises as seen in my \"Why I'm working at Pivotal blog post.\"\nFun things like \"Is my MP sitting?\"\nJon Udell on getting iCal files from the library\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 289.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>It can take a long time to get &quot;the mainstream&quot; to use new technologies. One would assume that this would be true in supporting the government, as Robert Brook does in his day job. In this brief episode, over the din and bottle collection activities at Monkigras, I catch up with him on just that topic and how he tries to manage being a change agent for the benefit of the UK Parliament.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.rolandus.com/products/r-09/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roland R09</a> vs. the <a href=\"http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/h4n\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zoom H4n</a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://monkigras.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Monkigras 2015</a>, London</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://robert-brook.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Brook</a>, working at the UK Parliament. What does this guy do exactly?</li>\n<li>Reducing friction in the existing systems. How does one do this?</li>\n<li>Digital enterprises as seen in my <a href=\"http://blog.pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-pivotal/pivotal-people/pivotal-people-michael-cote-on-joining-pivotal-and-building-better-software\" rel=\"nofollow\">&quot;Why I&#39;m working at Pivotal blog post.&quot;</a></li>\n<li>Fun things like &quot;Is my MP sitting?&quot;</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/the-icalendar-chicken-and-egg.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Udell on getting iCal files from the library</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 289.</p>","summary":"It can take a long time to get “the mainstream” to use new technologies. One would assume that this would be true in supporting the government, as Robert Brook does in his day job.","date_published":"2015-04-19T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/a8068bcc-0ff3-408e-9666-24ac6fa71296.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14328809,"duration_in_seconds":816}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273715369","title":"Episode 3: Something Celsius and Busy Bullshit work","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/3","content_text":"Summary\n\nWhile he's in Paris for the local DevOpsDays, John and I discuss the next big step for DevOps: getting \"The Business\" involved to tie-break the process deadlock. Plus: the Dutch are delightful!\n\nSponsor: The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It's a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nThe Dutch are DevOpsing, brother.\nJohn at DevOpsDays Paris. What's it like there?\nFighting \"them\" when it comes to DevOps. Docker is the Millennium Falcon\nThe Why guy\nThe Wall of confusion, 2010.\nWhere's \"The Business\" when it comes to DevOps and cloud? Are they showing up?\n\"What kind of company do you think we are?\"\nChad Dickerson Duke interview on Etsy.\nThe Goal - make sure you read it.\nJPMC says the nerds are coming.\nFlash Boys: DevOps Cafe Episode 58 - Zoran Perkov\nA Sense of Urgency\nThe Halo Effect - you can't just learn from success.\nGood to Great\nThis week's pic: my old Apple and work-Dell side-by-side.\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 298.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>While he&#39;s in Paris for the local DevOpsDays, John and I discuss the next big step for DevOps: getting &quot;The Business&quot; involved to tie-break the process deadlock. Plus: the Dutch are delightful!</p>\n\n<p>Sponsor: The <a href=\"http://www.cfsummit.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cloud Foundry Summit</a> is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It&#39;s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. <a href=\"http://www.cfsummit.com/attend\" rel=\"nofollow\">Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%</a>, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show-notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Dutch are DevOpsing, brother.</li>\n<li>John at DevOpsDays Paris. What&#39;s it like there?</li>\n<li>Fighting &quot;them&quot; when it comes to DevOps. <a href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/15/docker-is-the-millennium-falcon/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Docker is the Millennium Falcon</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Why guy</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://dev2ops.org/2010/02/what-is-devops/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Wall of confusion</a>, 2010.</li>\n<li>Where&#39;s &quot;The Business&quot; when it comes to DevOps and cloud? Are they showing up?</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.fiercedevops.com/offer/gc_software?sourceform=Organic-GC-SoftwareDefined-FierceDevOps\" rel=\"nofollow\">&quot;What kind of company do you think we are?&quot;</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtkXaqdEos\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chad Dickerson Duke interview on Etsy</a>.</li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0884271951/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0884271951&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=6IPWMQQWI6DAQEOL\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Goal</a></em> - make sure you read it.</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ONE/15660259x0x820077/8af78e45-1d81-4363-931c-439d04312ebc/JPMC-AR2014-LetterToShareholders.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">JPMC says the nerds are coming</a>.</li>\n<li>Flash Boys: <a href=\"http://devopscafe.org/show/2015/4/3/devops-cafe-episode-58-zoran-perkov.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">DevOps Cafe Episode 58 - Zoran Perkov</a></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422179710/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1422179710&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=GJUARECB4NZTD7IW\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Sense of Urgency</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476784035/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1476784035&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=UOOPHWPLJ2F27WOL\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Halo Effect</a></em> - you can&#39;t just learn from success.</li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058DRUV6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0058DRUV6&linkCode=as2&tag=coteicomthecoteb&linkId=AL6HK2QP23JAE6K4\" rel=\"nofollow\">Good to Great</a></em></li>\n<li>This week&#39;s pic: <a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/6667967/\" rel=\"nofollow\">my old Apple and work-Dell side-by-side</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 298.</p>","summary":"While he’s in Paris for the local DevOpsDays, John and I discuss the next big step for DevOps: getting “The Business” involved to tie-break the process deadlock. Plus: the Dutch are delightful! ","date_published":"2015-04-14T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/458f274e-9efa-4ae2-9673-813a8d952f2b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44221880,"duration_in_seconds":3587}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273714800","title":"Episode 2: Becoming a tech reporter, talking with Alex Williams","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/2","content_text":"Summary\n\nHow do you go from playing baseball in France, to getting shot at, to covering the tech industry? I talk with Alex Williams about how he did just that and eventually launched thenewstack.io, one of the more interesting, new technology news sites.\n\nSponsor: The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It's a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.\n\nSubscribe: iTunes, RSS Feed\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 281.","content_html":"<h1>Summary</h1>\n\n<p>How do you go from playing baseball in France, to getting shot at, to covering the tech industry? I talk with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/alexwilliams\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alex Williams</a> about how he did just that and eventually launched <a href=\"http://thenewstack.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\">thenewstack.io</a>, one of the more interesting, new technology news sites.</p>\n\n<p>Sponsor: The <a href=\"http://www.cfsummit.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cloud Foundry Summit</a> is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It&#39;s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side and to hear how organizations are using Cloud Foundry to become Software Defined Businesses. <a href=\"http://www.cfsummit.com/attend\" rel=\"nofollow\">Register now with the discount code COTE and get 25%</a>, which will bring the price down from $250 to about $187.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lord-of-computing-podcast/id983773453\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS Feed</a></p>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 281.</p>","summary":"How do you go from playing baseball in France, to getting shot at, to covering the tech industry? I talk with Alex Williams about how he did just that and eventually launched thenewstack.io, one of the more interesting, new technology news sites.","date_published":"2015-04-12T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/6d366a33-7f2e-49c7-acd6-89e26957cd2e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":98619777,"duration_in_seconds":4146}]},{"id":"tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/273714123","title":"Episode 1: How to demo your cloud poop, don't smoke corn silk","url":"https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/1","content_text":"What does it take to demo a cloud software? It's not easy! Also, lamb considered and memories of barcampESM. Our first re-boot of the IT Management and Cloud Podcast, renamed the Lords of Computing Podcast.\n\nYour friends, @cote and @botchagalupe.\n\nSubscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\n\nShow-notes and Links\n\n\nLamb and DevOpsDays Mama Mia.\nMemories, barcampESM - the first IT Management and Cloud podcast episode.\nThe need for Disaster Kitchen Apps - getting to better demos for cloud infrastructure\nThe Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - always have an enemy!\nThe Anti-corruption layer pattern for integrating with old IT.\nNetflix documentary of VCs, Something Ventured - Ben Thompson essay on venture capital and tech companies.\nOur plans for the Lords of Computing Podcast.\n\n\nLibsyn downloads as of 20160912: 633.","content_html":"<p>What does it take to demo a cloud software? It&#39;s not easy! Also, lamb considered and memories of barcampESM. Our first re-boot of the IT Management and Cloud Podcast, renamed the Lords of Computing Podcast.</p>\n\n<p>Your friends, <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/cote\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cote</a> and <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/botchagalupe\" rel=\"nofollow\">@botchagalupe</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Subscribe: <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordsOfComputing</a></p>\n\n<h1>Show-notes and Links</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Lamb and DevOpsDays Mama Mia.</li>\n<li>Memories, barcampESM - <a href=\"http://redmonk.com/cote/2008/01/11/it-management-podcast-001-barcampesm-monitoring-the-cloud-2008-predictions-and-more/\" rel=\"nofollow\">the first IT Management and Cloud podcast episode</a>.</li>\n<li>The need for Disaster Kitchen Apps - getting to better demos for cloud infrastructure</li>\n<li>The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - always have an enemy!</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://allegrotech.io/working-with-legacy-architecture.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Anti-corruption layer pattern</a> for integrating with old IT.</li>\n<li>Netflix documentary of VCs, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Ventured\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Something Ventured</em></a> - <a href=\"http://stratechery.com/2015/1999/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Thompson essay on venture capital and tech companies</a>.</li>\n<li>Our plans for the Lords of Computing Podcast.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Libsyn downloads as of 20160912: 633.</p>","summary":"What does it take to demo a cloud software? It’s not easy! Also, lamb considered and memories of barcampESM. ","date_published":"2015-04-05T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://chtbl.com/track/E8DGG/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/752ee20c-8e7a-4ce1-8214-0a3fef88215c/8dee5f90-7908-460d-b761-16b856b54eea.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54319050,"duration_in_seconds":3314}]}]}