We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department ("developers," etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you're an IT person

Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear

Jul 6th, 2020 38m 38s

People in large organizations avoid improving for improving's sake. They're very rarely proactive in transforming. Instead, it seems that management in most large organizations only act, and change, when they fear competition and failure. "

Episode 2: Outsourcing, SIs, and other "others"

Oct 31st, 2019 58m 1s

We discuss outsourcing IT.

Misaligned Incentives Episode 1: Who forget to invite "The Business," to this kubernetes PoC?

Sep 11th, 2019 44m 21s

Journey Through the Business Bottleneck, part 1.Join Rick and I as we try to find this elusive thing called "The Business." We lay out a theory we've been talking about: while IT has been improving or, at least, can improve, the business s

Monolithic Transformation

Sep 9th, 2019 1h 32m

Large organization are desperate to become “tech companies.” They drool at these tech companies ability to grow and change quickly. Despite mastering agile over the past 20 years, IT as a whole is too slow and unreliable. “It’s the culture,

Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations

Jul 9th, 2019 59m 12s

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 ho

Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore

Apr 8th, 2019 1h 14m

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 transitio

Jeff Meyerson on starting the Software Engineering Daily Podcast

Feb 11th, 2019 1h 2m

Jeff Meyerson is the host of Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/). We talk about his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for software engineers. We also talk about current trends in cloud computin

Version control, DevOps, Code Reviews, Semantic Merging, Spanish Startups, & Plastic SCM

Jan 15th, 2019 1h 10m

Version control has changed a lot over the past 15 years: we’ve moved from a centralized to a distributed model at the basic level. But the practices people follow have changed and grown as new methodologies like DevOps and continuous delivery

Umair Khan on AI Ops and Cloud Security

Dec 24th, 2018 56m 6s

Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and Cloud Security. Umair recently joned Scytale (https://www.scytale.io/) and he explains how the SPIFFE open soruce project (https://spiffe.io/) can help secure communicat

Jake Moilanen on going from Employee to Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist

Dec 17th, 2018 1h 10m

Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.

Zane Rockenbaugh on being the Startup CTO

Nov 5th, 2018 1h 10m

Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. Most of the time his clients are boostrapping their new compnay and need someone technical who can help build version 1.0. In this episode, we talk about Zane's career and what

Don't call me an "evangelist"

Sep 3rd, 2018 1h 20m

Coté talks about his job being an "evangelist," a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well.

Numbers. How do they work? Rachel Stephens

Aug 27th, 2018 55m 41s

When Coté says he doesn’t know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers.Fine more from Rachel on her RedMonk blog (https://redmonk.

Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management

Aug 20th, 2018 1h 17m

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. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he

Chris Donaldson on Automation

Aug 13th, 2018 1h 4m

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

Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing

Jul 30th, 2018 1h 2m

Brandon speaks with Matthew Brutsché (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbrut/) from 500 Rockets Marketing (https://500rockets.io/). Matt gives us his bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store in Seattle. Pl

Satish Kodukula on Product Management

Apr 9th, 2018 51m 43s

Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula (https://www.linkedin.com/in/skodukula/) 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 v

Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi

Apr 2nd, 2018 48m 26s

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 th

Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell

Mar 26th, 2018 1h

This is a great conversation with John Mitchell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwilliammitchell/) about Duke Energy improving it’s software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning

Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst

Mar 19th, 2018 1h 4m

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 J

Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter

Mar 12th, 2018 1h 6m

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,

Walter Bodwell on Agile

Mar 7th, 2018 1h

How do you implement Agile? Why does Agile matter? How has Agile changed in the last decade? Where do you get a beer in Austin? Walter Bodwell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wbodwell/) answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus

Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio

Mar 1st, 2018 1h 26m

Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We al

JJ Asghar on DevOps, Compliance and Grilling

Feb 19th, 2018 1h 9m

JJ Asghar (https://twitter.com/jjasghar) from Chef (https://www.chef.io/) explains how he found his way into DevOps and why DevOps makes Christmas better. We also discuss the latest news about Uber's security breach (https://www.theregister.co.