Software Defined Interviews
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Displaying 4 items of Software Defined Interviews with the tag "open source".
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Episode 128: Animated Bedtime Stories, Telling Dummies What to Do, and Why Docker Lost, with Viktor Farcic
September 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 2 mins
DevOps, ai agents, content creation, docker, kubernetes, open source
Viktor Farcic makes animated bedtime stories about tech history because he decided people should not have to look at his face. He also runs 20 to 50 agents at once, has them argue with each other, and reviews their work off a private YouTube channel in the morning. Plus: why AI is cheap next to a salary, why he expects a bloodbath, and what actually went wrong at Docker.
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Episode 127: The KubeCon Drone Demo, CFP Reviewing at Scale, and the Agentic AI Foundation, with Lin Sun
September 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 4 mins
agentic ai, cncf, conferences, istio, kubecon, kubernetes, open source, public speaking
Lin Sun flew a drone over 13,000 people in a KubeCon keynote so an AI model on her laptop could score how engaged they were. It broke twice on stage, and she's thinking of doing it again. Why that still worked, what a KubeCon program co-chair actually does with three thousand submissions, how they spot AI-written CFPs, and whether working on open source makes you less strategic to the company paying your salary.
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Episode 32: Jono Bacon on internal community development and keys to community management
June 1st, 2017 | 14 mins 15 secs
OSCON, austin, community, open source
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.
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Episode 13: The changing nature of open source & Loco Moco, with Barton George
August 1st, 2016 | 16 mins 59 secs
Dell, LordsOfComputing, S1P, S1P2016, open source
The victory of open source in the infrastructure software space. Plus, crazy Hawaiian food.