Software Defined Interviews

Nov 28 2024 93 ep. 52 mins 592
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Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like

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Episode 88: Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser

Nov 28 2024 79 mins  
As if platform engineering and expat'ing in the UK weren't enough, Whintney and Coté discuss the forgotten technology of business cards wih Abby Bangser. Check out Abby in LinkedIn, and Kratix the platform engineering project from Syntasso. Also, check out the CNCF Platforms White paper and Cloud Native Maturity Model. We had video recording problems during this episode,

Episode 87: Platform Engineering, AI, and Community - Whitney's KubeCon NA 2024 Adventures

Nov 25 2024 48 mins  
Whitney is back from KubeCon and shares what she saw. We talk about platform engineering, Salt Lake City's vibe, AI, and observability, among other things. We wrap the episode with tips for maximizing attending conferences. Also, memories of Arby's ads. Whitney's KubeCon talks: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey Panel: Exploring eBPF Use Cases in Clou

Episode 86: Open Source Money Ethics, How Analysts use AI, What Even is an Industry Analyst, and Advanced Chicken Nugget Diplomacy, with Rachel Stephens

Nov 12 2024 70 mins  
In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being an industry analyst. They discuss experiences from working as an analyst, the balance between qualitative and quantitative analysis, the challenges and misconceptions surrounding open-source business models, and the impact of AI on the analyst profession and beyond

Episode 85: Kubernetes Cost Controls and Washing Horse Blankets, with Phil Andrews

Oct 31 2024 53 mins  
Whitney and Coté talk with Phil Andrews, field CTO at Cast AI, about cost management and optimization, the nuances of Kubernetes, coin-operated laundromats, and farm life. The conversation touches on the differences between automation and FinOps, how sales and engineering intersect in cloud software, and Phil's unique experiences - from managing a laundromat and a hobby farm t

Episode 84: Tech recruiting from both sides of the table, with Sidney Miller

Oct 19 2024 66 mins  
Whitney and Coté talk with Sidney Miller about tech recruitment. They talk a lot about the process from both sides: people hiring and people looking for jobs. Plus, some thoughts on working at Neiman Marcus. Find Sidney in LinkedIn. You can the video of this interview as well if you're into that kind of thing. More details: They explore effective strategies for both the hir

Episode 83: Whitney Lee

Oct 01 2024 86 mins  
Whitney Lee's career path has been all over the place, from artist, wedding photographer, waiter, and now world-renowned devrel in the cloud native world. This episode kicks off the reboot of this podcast, Software Defined Interviews. Whitney and I (Coté) have been planning to start a podcast for a year or so now, and it's great to start. We'll be putting out intervie

Misaligned Incentives Episode 4: You get what you pay for - compensating tech staff is often done poorly

Jul 17 2020 50 mins  
<p>We discuss compensation, particularly how people in the IT department (&quot;developers,&quot; etc.) are so disconnected from the actual business that compensating them based on business performance is near impossible. Not good if you&#39;re an IT person and like money.</p> There's other types of comp. then money, obviously, and those are fine too.

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

Jul 06 2020 38 mins  
<p>People in large organizations avoid improving for improving&#39;s sake. They&#39;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. &quot;Everyone&quot; knows this is a bad strategy, and yet &quot;everyone&quot; does it. Perhaps we sho

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

Oct 31 2019 58 mins  
<p>We discuss outsourcing IT.</p>

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

Sep 11 2019 44 mins  
<p>Journey Through the Business Bottleneck, part 1.</p> 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 side of the house isn't showing up to do anything with CLOUD and AGILE and THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. W