Software Defined Talk

It Is What It Is

Trademark’s in the Mail

Vibe Strategy

Rick Houlihan, MongoDB Field CTO on Document Databases

It’s All Affiliate Links

Put On A Musical

Let’s Not Ruin This

Episode 511: G-Wiz

Vibe Code This Baby

It’s like the Suburbs

Software Defined Interviews Crossover: PaaS and Career Advice with Brian Gracely

Battery of Potential

Put It On Ice

There Could be Extra Innings

Socrates Didn’t Whiteboard

Maybe Puppies Solve Everything

Have a Plan or Throw It Away

Checkbox Features

2024 Year in Review

Star, Archive, or Spam?

I’m not ready to start a new streak

Big Math

Episode 496: It’s Not About Being Paranoid

The most honorable of mentions

We are going to move the couch

Stay in the sandbox

Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance

The OSS Money Trap

AI's use UI's

Whitney Lee: From Wedding Photographer to Cloud-Native DevRel

Am I Here for the Mission or the Paycheck?

WordPress Drama and Chicken Sandwiches

Platform Engineering vs. DevOps

It's an Ending, That's Enough

A Lot of USB Ports

[AGPL does not close deals for you]

Tip Jar Economy

There Never Was a Rug

No offsite content

Packing Cube Victory

Beware of the Llama

We’re an N-1 Organization

Bring a point of view

Calendar Math

There’s at least a road to Nirvana

RESOLVED: Unscheduled Outage

Speaking of Goat Rodeos

The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog

Paul Yuknewicz on Serverless

Amanda K. Silver on Developer Tools

Learning to love Enterprise Software

Episode 467: Multimodal

Episode 466: Great Grammarly

Episode 465: The Big Blue Burger Buffet

Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game

Episode 463: Phishing License

Episode 462: Lifting Code

Episode 461: Not illegal, works as designed

Episode 460: Tom Wilkie on Observability

Episode 459: Is Hello A Proper Slack Message?

Episode 458: How to survive and thrive at work

Episode 457: Nobody owns YAML

Episode 456: Second Guessing

Episode 455: LTS: Let Thou Support it

Episode 454: The Galactic Tent

Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming

Episode 452: Write the letters

Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet?

Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness

Episode 449: Magic of Cloud

Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF

Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review

Episode 446: The Business B.S. Dictionary

Episode 445: It’s my sacred time

Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete

Episode 443: Everything is maintenance

Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software

Episode 441: The whole point of AI is laziness

Episode 440: KubeCon Chicago Recap

Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad

Episode 438: This is a 20-year bug

Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle

Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements

Episode 435: SSH in a for loop but faster

Episode 434: Slides Benedict

Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name

Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware

Episode 431: CEO Therapy Session

Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long

Episode 429: This is peak VMware

Episode 428: Three steps into a 10k race

Episode 427: You must be this tall to be a customer

Episode 426: There’s no more backpacks to buy

Episode 425: Michael Kennedy on Python

Episode 424: William Morgan on Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF

Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

Episode 422: Corporation vs. Community

Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson

Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps

Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry

Episode 418: I don’t like Anime

Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake

Episode 416: Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios

Episode 415: You can buy a lot of Nagios with that

Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices

Episode 413: Swim between the flags

Episode 412: We’re at a Kubernetes Conference

Episode 411: Jamin Ball on Cloud Earnings

Episode 410: Jordan Tigani on the death of Big Data

Episode 409: It’s never too early to start a revolution

Episode 408: Undivided Attention

Episode 407: It’s fine, pretty fine, and just fine

Episode 406: John Willis on Deming, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps

Episode 405: Peter Pouliot on DevRel at a hardware company

Episode 404: Sargun Kaur on Technical Interviews

Episode 403: Everything about this is wrong

Episode 402: What’s going on in Chicago?

Episode 401: Swing State for Grocery Stores

Episode 400: Prompt Engineering

Episode 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box

Episode 398: To the Moon

Episode 397: Mark as Unread

Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy

Episode 395: Should you start a podcast?

Episode 394: 2022 Year in Review

Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George

Episode 392: Success is going to Day 2

Episode 391: Anton Grishko on managing Cloud Costs with FinOps

Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming

Episode 389: The Miscellaneous Keynote

Episode 388: The Death of DevOps, with Andrew Clay Shafer

Episode 387: Trust and Incentives

Episode 386: I’ve been to VMware Media Training

Episode 385: Armchair Strategist

Episode 384: KubeCon NA 2022 Recap

Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight

Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding

Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue

Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts

Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap

Episode 378: Email is not broken

Episode 377: Coffee is for closers

Episode 376: Businesses that use computers

Episode 375: For the Birds

Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps?

Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers

Episode 372: Don’t do any editing

Episode 371: What’s your TAM

Episode 370: In the long run…

Episode 369: DJ .pptx FINAL_0707-V2

Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs

Episode 367: Exit Ramps

Episode 366: 'Zero mainframe, zero datacenter'

Episode 365: Automating for Auditing

Episode 364: First class SaaS

Episode 363: Bad Bosses

Episode 362: Are we using version control?

Episode 361: This is Bonkers

Episode 360: Radical Transparency

Episode 359: Sell the Slide

Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti

Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing?

Episode 356: They should have consulted us

Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department

Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile

Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans

Episode 352: Layers of Abstraction

Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide

Episode 350: Email in Excel

Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time

Episode 348: Jevons Paradox

Episode 347: Son of Beagle

Episode 346: Ev Kontsevoy with an opinionated approach to secure access

Episode 345: It’s always the last place you look

Episode 344: Positive sum but not for everyone

Episode 343: Comfort Bubble

Episode 342: Paradox of Advice

Episode 341: File your own expenses

Episode 340: The Dumb Pipe Manifesto

Episode 339: Just do some squats

Episode 338: Time Machine and Index Funds

Episode 337: Year in Review

Episode 336: Michael Wilde on Observability

Episode 335: Eager to take a JNDI lookup

Episode 334: Jordan Tigani on data intensive applications

Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water

Episode 332: Capabilities vs. Complexity

Episode 331: Graphics of Guerrillas

Episode 330: The marketing became the technology

Episode 329: Eat the complexity

Episode 328: Your MOM is a SaaS

Episode 327: Jack Naglieri on security at scale

Episode 326: Just Jump In

Episode 325: Nothing says Enterprise like a function key

Episode 324: Stockpile EULAs

Episode 323: Boxes and Arrows

Episode 322: I didn’t make these rules

Episode 321: Cambrian explosion of screw drivers

Episode 320: Hash codes for everyone

Episode 319: We need two elephants

Episode 318: The sounds of Excel

Episode 317: Fahrenheit is perfect for BBQ

Episode 316: All we need is cURL

Episode 315: Field of Code

Episode 314: Prime Minster of Thinking

Episode 313: My kids are listening to Stevie Nicks

Episode 312: Crossing The Brown Horizon

Episode 311: The Enterprise #devrel Path-to-Profit Pincer Movement

Episode 310: Never Talk

Episode 309: They’re your kids

Episode 308: Developer Relations with Josh Long

Episode 307: I’m bitter about infrastructure

Episode 306: The Lotus Dream

Episode 305: No PTO from picking up your kids

Episode 304: John Willis on Deming

Episode 303: Bring your spreadsheet

Episode 302: Amsterdam hates cars

Episode 301: Justin McCarthy on Zero Trust and securing hybrid clouds

Episode 300: No more architecture talk

Episode 299: Working Backwards

Episode 298: Come on Gophers

Episode 297: Grant Miller from Replicated on delivering and managing Kubernetes apps anywhere

Episode 296: Fungated into my mind

Episode 295: Status Quo Fork

Episode 294: I already have a job

Episode 293: Don’t steal my kid’s bike, steal my bike

Episode 292: Wrap Around Analysis

Episode 291: Master of the Coin

Episode 290: Make your own slides

Episode 289: The sabbatical is not going well

Episode 288: The EULA of Life

Episode 287: The Bureaucracy Episode

Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one

Episode 285: "Work is Punishment"

Episode 284: That’s Mr. Jeff to you

Episode 283: There are no chicken tenders in calendaring

Episode 282: The Engine Should Not Be the Differentiator

Episode 281: That’s a thing, I don’t need to read about it

Episode 280: It would be nice if calendaring were fixed

Episode 279: Squire Earle on securing the Enterprise

Episode 278: Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh on becoming Serviceful

Episode 277: This episode was way better than I expected

Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more

Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community

Episode 274: Can we start a Slack Channel to discuss this?

Episode 273: Look at my iPad

Episode 272: This time we’re doing it in green

Episode 271: The Defaults Lifestyle

Episode 270: The Crossover Episode

Episode 269: I like the no friction

Episode 268: Drew Firment on teaching the world to cloud

Episode 267: Databases are at the end of a network connection

Episode 266: Dan Balcauski on sabbaticals, consulting and reducing product churn.

Episode 265: Configuring DNS? Pull up a chair.

Episode 264: I poisoned the security well with my children

Episode 263: End of an Era

Episode 262: It’s be a shame if something were to happen to that nice API implementation of yours

Episode 261: Arnav Hiray on High School, Tech and Debate

Episode 260: Show me what you got

Episode 259: Michael Levan on Developer Relations, Go Programming and Code Quality.

Episode 258: One more adjustment and then we can start

Episode 257: Once again, I have not read the report

Episode 256: There is no passion in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

Episode 255: We should not emphasise this behaviour

Episode 254: Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design

Episode 253: People don’t understand how pay works

Episode 252: It can be exciting, but excitement ends.

Episode 251: Don’t you use my words against me

Episode 250: Jana Werner, a Head of Transformation

Episode 249: Was Tom Landry cool?

Episode 248: They want cloud grade

Richard Seroter on App Modernization

Episode 246: Istio-washing, 20 domain names, .docx

Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode

Episode 244: Kylie Grenier on Digital Transformation

Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers

Episode 242: Brian Gracely on OpenShift

Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails

Episode 240: Todd Gardner on building Web Apps with JavaScript

Episode 239: Coté got up at 2am

Episode 238: Shannon Williams on Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”

Episode 236: Margaret Staples from Twilio on Building Games, Dev Evangelism and Owls.

Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land

Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode

Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here

Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK

Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify

Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?

Episode 229: Does it work with JSON? That’s what I do

Episode 228: Professor Jeremy Hajek on IT Education

Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure

Episode 225: All my kids have opinions on Scratch

Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes

Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?

Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread

Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn

Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers

Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic

Episode 218: Kubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell

Episode 217: You’re eating your hamburger wrong - IBM, unlocking value at Compuware, microservices are dead

Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.

Episode 215: The Jez Humble/Life Insurance Renewal PDF Continuum

Episode 214: VPNs, Windows 7 EoL, & Crapplications

Episode 213: The inglorious cloud basterds

Episode 212: "The Four" from the Exegesis Podcast

Episode 211: Adam Jacob on Open Source

Episode 210: “What choice do we have?”

Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread

Episode 207: All the good stuff is proprietary

Episode 206: The Sanka of hot sauces

Episode 205: No Change in our journey

Episode 204: Foiled by Physical Access Again

Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?

Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy

Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000

Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal

Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet

Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS

Episode 196: The janitor strategy

Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough

Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.

Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work

Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?

Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.

Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ

Episode 188: The transit private/public partnership, and, yeah, still, of course, kubernetes shit of the week

Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry

Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

Episode 185: Drink your own dog food

Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG

Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind

Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!

Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone

Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”

Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?

Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”

Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.

Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”

Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!

Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage

Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler

Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update

Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch

Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors

Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear

Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”

Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"

Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support

Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”

Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards

Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing

Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”

New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview

Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"

Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”

Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft."