Category: Podcasts
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“My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle – Software Defined Talk #73
Apple has put out three new things – the phone, the watch, and the OS – which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it’s destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Also see full show notes.
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“Oh! Scurvy! Again.” – Software Defined Talk #72
It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it’s software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee…plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Also see full show notes.
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Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants – Software Defined Talk #71
We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack… Also see full show notes.
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“No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” – Software Defined Talk #70
This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray’s first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya. Also see full show notes.
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The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs – Software Defined Talk #69
There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.…
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Too old for the buffet – Software Defined Talk #68
With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors of HPE and Rackspace going private and catch up on Verizon buying Yahoo! Also see full show notes.
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Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, “but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho.” – Software Defined Talk #67
Is anyone minding the business side of these container orchestration plays? That’s the main topic we discuss after doing over recent Docker announcements. We then discuss the state of tech journalism and throw out a free business plan for left-ish fried chicken slinging. Also see full show notes.
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I-Bankers Smokin’ L’s in the Hot-tub – Software Defined Talk #66
With two surprise acquisitions this week we have a lot of synergies to discuss. We cover Samsung picking up Joyent, and Microsoft buying LinkedIn. Highly related is a recent article trying to explain what’s going on with private equity buying tech companies. Then, we discuss the big news from chef we’ve been waiting for: the…
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Residential Diaper Rash – Software Defined Talk #64
While Texas moistens up, we talk about the morals of rich tech folks suing journalists, the state of open source business, the history of the BI market, and how to use the Meeker decks. Check out the full show notes for links to the recommendations, conferences, and tech news items we didn’t get to cover.…
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The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, & Tater Salad – Software Defined Talk #63
After we learn how to divide by eight, we discuss Uber being shut-down in Austin, then a recent case for hypervisors aging out. Also, we all agree that we’re way too old to consider anything new. Also see full show notes.
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Peak Ping Pong – Software Defined Talk #62
This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal’s funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn’t hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong. Also see full show notes.
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Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there – Software Defined Talk #61
OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis. Also see full show notes.
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Talking DevOps ROI with the Finance Department
I followed up my recent column on DevOps ROI with a podcast on the topic. Back from the podcasting dead, I called up Ed who is actually a real, live “finance person” to walk through what ROI is and how you’d calculate it for something like DevOps. As ever with Ed, it’s a great conversations.…
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Coté Memo #074: \”Let’s start an anonymous club.\”
_It’s mostly links this week, with a big add video ad for my pal below:_ # Get your lurn on [[player.vimeo.com/video/121…](https://player.vimeo.com/video/121473651?color=01786e&byline=0&portrait=0](https://player.vimeo.com/video/121473651?color=01786e&byline=0&portrait=0)) Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out [this two day workshop from Craftman PM](https://pgconsulting.com/workshop/). I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes…
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The Agility Frontier – Continuous Delivery and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
What’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry have to do with continuous delivery? Fresh off presenting at a recent Jenkins User Conference on that topic, I ask Karun Bakshi to go over his presentation. We discuss how Pivotal Cloud Foundry helps enable continuous delivery and also some of the “deleted scenes” from his talk. The Agility Frontier –…
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Coté Memo #047: Selling a \”platform\” is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you’ll ever do
# Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #047. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I should write more awesome stuff to get more sign-ups! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, [you should subscribe](http://coteindustries.com/memo) to get the daily email.) See [past newsletters…
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What makes a good podcast?
Create a universe within your show Your universe should include a theme song, phrases you like to use, segments, anything recurring. Differentiate your show. This signals your values and has the benefit of giving your audience a fun way to communicate with you and with each other. The best shows do this organically. This whole…
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“They are absolutely our most devoted and fierce fans,” Mr. Plotz said. Gabfest fans often show up for live podcasts, another area of expansion. “They stand in line to get into an auditorium to watch three people talk into a microphone,” said Mr. Bowers, who estimates they have attracted crowds as large as 800 people…
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DrunkAndRetired.com #183 episode up, in video form. Here’s the audio only, and remember, you can subscribe to the podcast feed to get the audio versions of each episode downloaded automagically. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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An OK TV show, but a zombie let-down – The Walking Dead, Season 1
We finished watching AMC’s The Walking Dead tonight (through Amazon Video OnDemand in beard stubble HD clarity) – I wouldn’t recommend it as a super zombie show. There are a few good scenes, maybe a whole episode (the second?), but overall or suffers from being a drama instead of a zombie show. A second season,…
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