Tag: podcasts
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Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management – Software Defined Interviews #73
Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. Also see full show notes.
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Chris Donaldson on Automation – Software Defined Interviews #72
How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What’s the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort? In this interview with Acxiom’s Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation. Also see full show notes.
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Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing – Software Defined Interviews #71
Brandon interviews Matthew Brutsché from 500 Rockets Marketing. Matt makes bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store and we talk about the evolution of digital marketing. Also see full show notes.
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…
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Satish Kodukula on Product Management – Software Defined Interviews #70
Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP). Also see full show notes.
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Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi – Software Defined Interviews #69
Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they’re putting out. And while there’s two major firms in the tech world…
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Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell – Software Defined Interviews #68
This is a great conversation with John Mitchell about Duke Energy improving it’s software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning of what kicked the company off, a shift from COTS software to mobile apps and analytics. Also see full show notes.
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Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst – Software Defined Interviews #67
Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually managed and even conceptualized in organizations is a lot more than just patching software and using CAPTCHA’s. In this discussion, Coté talks with Javvad Malik who’s been in the security business for countless years. In addition to talking about how security…
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Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter – Software Defined Interviews #66
If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies that will either solve all our problems or put everyone out of work. In reality, there’s little to know AI and machine learning, though complex, has many practical uses. While they’re often delightful, there’re not mystical. Coté discusses how…
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Link: The Improbable Rise of the Daily News Podcast
Turns out there’s money in enclosure tags. Who knew? “In recent weeks, The Daily announced that it was becoming a national radio show. In doing so, it proved that scale can generate millions of dollars in new revenue, as well as (potentially) a hugely valuable spot on the national FM radio dial. That radio slot,…
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Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors
“We have already slashed the time needed to implement new ideas by 70 percent while avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in costs.” M. Wes Haga, Chief of Mission Applications and Infrastructure Programs for Air Force Research Lab Slowly but surely, the US government is improving how they do software. Working at Pivotal, I’m lucky…
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Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be – WIRED
Early excitement around what Apple’s podcast analytics is saying about podcast listeners: “At Panoply, home to podcasts like Slate’s Political Gabfest and Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, CTO Jason Cox says that listeners are typically getting through 80-90 percent of content” Original source: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be – WIRED
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Building trust with internal marketing, large and small
Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to creating and caring for software. Scaling up the improvements learned and put into place by your initial teams relies on building trust and understanding in the overall organization. For whatever reason, most people in large organizations are resistant to change…
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Bloomberg on kubernetes in Cloud Foundry
On overview of how Bloomberg is looking at the likes of Pivotal Container Services: “Many Kubernetes distributions are good on day one, when they’re first deployed,” said Andrey Rybka, technical architect in the office of the CTO at Bloomberg, the global finance, media and tech company based in New York. “But what happens on day…
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FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, & Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50% – Software Defined Talk #108
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors – even Oracle! – have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also,…
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Private cloud all up in my grits, plus, Cloud-native Enterprise Architecture – Coté Memo #33
This week, news around Microsoft’s Azure Stack drove a lot of private cloud talk around these parts. Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what “Cloud-native Enterprise Architecture” means. Links and notes below. Also, if you’re into Software Defined Talk, we’ve created a Patreon account. One, if you just want to give us cash, hey,…
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Coté Memo – Issue #32
It’s a short week, what with July 4th on Tuesday. There’s a few podcasts below and bit less than a handful of links. Podcasts Software Defined Talk: “Do I just need some better medication?” or, advertising, antitrust, and talking to strangers Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of…
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Apple makes major podcast updates, tracking how much user’s actually listen
Apple said today that it will be using (anonymized) data from the app to show podcasters how many people are listening and where in the app people are stopping or skipping. This has the potential to dramatically change our perception of how many people really listen to a show, and how many people skip ads,…
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Private cloud, beans and franks, and bathrooms – Coté Memo #29
There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack channel for Software Defined Talk listeners. There’s other channels in there, of course, but if you’re into extremely low-traffic stuff – or want to make it higher traffic, send me a…
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BigCo change management, OpenStack, and BBQ – Coté Memo #28
It seems like all I do now-a-days is podcasts. So, here’s some down below, plus some links of interest. Recent Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: The management perspective on transforming Allstate, with Opal Perry — soundcloud.com I talk with Allstate’s Opal Perry about how Allstate has been shifting how they do it, to a more cloud-native approach.…
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