Episode 154: Singapore Sanka & tech idears
More consolidation in the kubernetes community, plus the X Windowing System and Canonical. Related: “I’m not waiting for an answer, I’m just going to go on.” Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is ...
11 Nov 20181h 4min
Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat
IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance ...
1 Nov 20181h 25min
Episode 152: Who put robots in my clouds? Oracle OpenWorld
There’s all sorts of cloud stuff coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, so Brando and Coté talk about the mouth-feel of the news. Related, Amazon’s attempts to get off Oracle in Ohio, iCloud droppi...
24 Okt 20181h 11min
Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut?
Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions. Sponsored b...
18 Okt 20181h 12min
The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets
Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutt...
11 Okt 20181h 16min
Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)
With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation...
5 Okt 20181h 7min
Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway?
We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help wit...
28 Sep 201845min
Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up!
There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product l...
21 Sep 20181h 7min
