Tag: podcasts
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Casper mattresses and podcast history
The podcast industry is supported by just a few whales of advertisers. In the beginning, the entire industry was propped up by benefactors that specialized in delivering email, for some reason. Then, of course, things evolved, and for some reason, it was companies that enabled listeners to obtain postage stamps. Soon after, it was the…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
Fewer than a quarter of enterprises have scaled AI. Also: adoption that’s broad but shallow, agent sprawl vs. a runtime, second brains, and MCP as SOAP for Zoomers.
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AI ends up like spreadsheets – Software Defined Talk #124 with Bryan Ross
I’m old enough to remember how much time and agony we spent explaining to managers the importance of context switching for developers, and how they should have meeting free Fridays… And now the same people that we’re trying to help are bragging about how distracted they are. Bryan Ross, SDI #124. Check out this week’s…
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Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era
The same five-pillar argument as the Platform Engineering 2.0 white paper, but in conversation and with two things the slide deck does not say out loud: that the internal developer platform is becoming an agent developer platform serving dozens of machine consumers per human, and that virtual machines – pushed off the golden path entirely…
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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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Dithering, May 19th, 2026 – Data Center Unpopularity
Good marketing is putting true facts in a way people want to hear. – – John Gruber 🔗 Dithering, May 19th, 2026 – Data Center Unpopularity
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Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.
In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime – the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the foundation. We also got into the messy…
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If you can’t wait until Friday for the perfectly edited and polished Software Defined Talk podcast episode, you can watch the unedited, full recoding – in glorious color video – in the meantime.
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Check out the live reacording of this week’s Software Defined Talk. Final episode posted tomorrow, on Friday if you prefer traditional podcast.
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Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus – Software Defined Interviews #121
Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus: Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware’s renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch…
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You Can Feel It Coming – Software Defined Talk
This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them. See the traditional podcast listing for links and more.
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Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse – Software Defined Interviews
See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.
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Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress. From our interview with Jana Werner.
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AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer
This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode was recorded live at #cfgmgmtcamp with Andrew Clay Shafer as a returning guest: Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste – those are the major topics Andrew and I discussed this week at a live recording. Also, a framework for creating the…
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This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. I recommend the traditional podcast format.
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews: we talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud. They talk about what 15 years of DevOps and delivery data actually says about AI. The answer feels something like “it makes you even better at what you’re already good at.” High-performing teams get better, while…
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After the Dream – Software Defined Talk #555
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the video (above), or if you prefer traditional podcasts, subscribe to it.
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up comedy, and improv theater. She talks about platform engineering, the importance…
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The Alpha and The Omega, Software Defined Talk #554: This week, Brandon and I discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. If you don’t like the traditional podcast format, check out the unedited recording.
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Do you listen to my podcast, Software Defined Talk? If you do, I’d appreciate you taking the time to fill out our listener survey. We do occasional ads and paid interviews, and this helps us do more and charge more. It means we can pay for the podcast and some tasty beef ribs at the…
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