Tag: podcasts
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We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)
Suggested playlist for this episode. We Fear Change, a new talk I’ve got a mostly newish talk coming up next week about people’s fear of change in organizations, on Oct 24 2023 at 11:00am Amsterdam time. Register to Watch the Talk It’s narrowed down, of course, for software and ops stuff. You know: all that…
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It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts
In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…
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2023-06-02 day note
Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it was to VMware admin types, I positioned my platform talk as a glimpse of their future. Whenever the infrastructure changes, you can use new application architectures…and then that drives new types of infrastructure and management needs…and so forth. It means that…
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“cut off like sausages”: “the wasteland of images that surround us”
App Stories I’m working on a new idea for a project – a series of interview and case studies about applications inside, you know, large organizations – my ongoing interest. These are my favorite types of stories: why an application was needed, how people came up with what to do, how they wrote the app,…
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IncrativeOps
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The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps
Suggested episode theme song: download share download share Embed this tracksmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native HTML audio or have the Flash plugin installed. The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps Earlier…
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How to improve your podcast skills, more travel tips, speaking at conferences
This week: Getting better at making podcasts by listening to them, more business travel tips, upcoming talks of mine, links, and random notes. Current Status I’m at VMware Explore this week, I was at DevOpsDays Dallas last week. That’s right: two weeks of travel away from home. I don’t recommend that length of travel. Things…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #54
Developers don’t actually want to change the batteries. Bruegel Original content Software Defined Talk #328: Your MOM is a SaaS This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. A Shift in Mindset it Critical The missing parts of scaling up DevOps are…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #50
Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Free DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Promotional gif A conference I helped put together, DevOps Loop, is next week. I’m putting together my presentation “fear of change.” So far, I’m playing around with the notion of going over fear of change in more literary sources. There’s…
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🗂 Link: Developer Advocacy Inside and Outside a Business
“I think a lot of times as engineers we can build something that’s super complicated and never understand if people can actually use it. So my job as a developer advocate is making sure that I can use it and then make sure that beginners, intermediate and advanced people can also use it,” Douglas said.…
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The Business Bottleneck, new book
I’m working on a new book (check out the work in progress), here’s the premise: After at least five years of struggling to transformation, IT knows how to deliver better software, how to do the process and use the new tools needed for “digital transformation.” They may not actually do all that, but they know…
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Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations – Software Defined Interviews #82
Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO of the CNCF. We discuss how he got into open source, what it’s like to work at Twitter and how he helped start the CNCF. Plus, Chris gives us an overview of the different kinds of CNCF projects and offers advice on how to get started with Kubernetes. Also see…
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Better than reality
The problem with binge-watching is the same problem with wanting it to be a holiday all the time. The more we consider a show serious, the more it feels permissible to drown oneself in episode after episode of it, to use it as an excuse to stay home sick from the world. It is logical…
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“Most people in contemporary society don’t believe in Athena”
COWEN: When you translated the Odyssey — as a reader, I think of your approach as pretty clean and direct and very easy to read, but also with a lot of psychological depth, and I prefer that in the Odyssey. But when I read, say, the Hebrew Bible, I want something a little more, maybe stentorian in…
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Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore – Software Defined Interviews #81
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam’s career, what led him to start Chef and Chef’s recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive. Also see full show notes.
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Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage – Software Defined Talk #173
IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries. Also see full show notes.
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The Mainframe Strangler – Software Defined Talk #172
There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers. Also see full show notes.