Leslie Lamport and the Free Software Movement
In this SCaLE wrap-up Mike and Erik discuss the final day of the conference and talks by Denver Gingerich called "What happens when hardware puts software freedom first? We built a router to find out"...
26 Maalis 202544min
Mike and Erik Go to Pasadena!
This week we are on location in the city of Pasadena, CA for Scale 22x, the Socal Linux Expo. We talked to people and went to talks and drank a lot of coffee. We do a debrief of some of the amazing wo...
19 Maalis 20251h
Simulating Distributed Systems with David Morrison
Every once in a while you come across a project where you’re like “Oh, dang, wish I’d thought of that”. That’s the case with this week’s guest, David R. Morrison. David is the founder of Applied C...
12 Maalis 202555min
Point Break and the Spirit of Devops
This week Mike and Erik are joined by Rob Hernandez who has deep experience with Devops and both cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Rob takes us from the early days of his career as a student IT worker...
5 Maalis 20251h 22min
"Where are all the elders?"
This week we continue Mike's origin story for another 20 years of his history and Erik asks him the question: "Where did all the old people go?" Send us Fan Mail
26 Helmi 20251h 6min
Origin Story: Part 1 - Mike Fails at Being a Chemist
This episode has a bit of everything. Spaceships! Killer storms! Piracy! Supercomputers that look like furniture! But mainly we discover how Mike fell into his lifelong pattern of turning everythin...
19 Helmi 202551min
The Failure Modes of Agile with Dr Junade Ali
In Episode 40 “Agile Trashers Part 2: The Trashening” we mentioned a study titled “268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects”. News about this study showed up in all of the usual places (H...
12 Helmi 20251h 8min
Do Programmers Need to Know Anything About Computers?
This episode is based on a mild difference in view that Erik and I have about whether it’s useful for programmers to know details of computer hardware. I feel that it is important and beneficial. Er...
5 Helmi 20251h 2min
