Episode 92: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&As & IPOs
Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's also s...
9 Huhti 201751min
Episode 91: Container orchestration framework names you can't pronounce, for $500. Or, everything’s coming Up kubernetes.
We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tact...
30 Maalis 201754min
Episode 90: These strategies work really well except for when they’re totally fucked
While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how compa...
15 Maalis 20171h 1min
Episode 89: The Shit Show Matrix, or, they’re following the playbook which is basically unprofitable
Docker’s new enterprise SKUs and, once again, the open-core model. Also: IPO mania with Snap and MuleSoft. In discussion Docker EE, we start with a discussion on how socket-based pricing may seem goof...
8 Maalis 20171h 6min
Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right?
There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our...
18 Helmi 20171h
Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords
Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies;...
11 Helmi 201759min
Episode 86: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under
With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “as...
30 Tammi 20171h 1min
Episode 85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2
In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working w...
20 Tammi 201748min
