Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Software Defined Interviews
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Software Defined Interviews
Software Defined Interviews episodes
- Episode 67: Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst
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 is done well and poorly, they discuss controversies in the space and establishing a good baseline for securing organizations. Also, there’s talk of being an industry analyst, British patriotism (or lack thereof?) and webinars, among many other topics.
Relevant to your interests- Russel Crowe is actually a Kiwi, apologies.
- AlienVault - unified security for threat detection, incident response, and compliance.
More- Javvad in Twitter: @j4vv4d.
- Javvad over at AlienVault.
- Javvad’s fantastically funny and informative YouTube videos.
- J4vv4ad.com - all Javvad, all the time.
- Javvad’s 451 work.
Special Guest: Javvad Malik.
Sponsored By:
- Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG
1 hr 5 min - Episode 66: Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter
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 to think about machine learning, how it works, and some examples of what it can do with Dominic Wellington.
Relevant links & select articles from Dominic- Think Outside The Black Box: “The problem is that each time, the definition of AI has been updated to exclude the recent achievement.”
- New Paths to Helicon.
- Replace of Augment?
- Not Biting My Tonge: “Where things go wrong is when stodgy enterprise vendors put on their dad-jeans and go down to the skate park.”
- Algorithmic Reality: “We can see the beginnings of this process already: we drive where the algorithms tell us to drive, we exercise the way the algorithms tell us to exercise, and we even date whom the algorithms tell us to date. We buy films, music, and books that the algorithms recommend, go on holiday where they suggest, and take jobs that they set us up with. In the future, what other decisions will we hand over to algorithms - unquestioning and unconcerned?”
- The paperclip maximizer.
More- In Twitter: @dwellington.
- His blog.
- Articles at DevOps.com, IT Chronicles.
Special Guest: Dominic Wellington.
Sponsored By:
- Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG
1 hr 7 min - Episode 65: Walter Bodwell on Agile
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 answers all of these questions and more in this episode. Plus, we hear the story of how Evity was sold for $100 Million.
More- Planigle
- www.walterbodwell.com
- Agile Austin
- Keep Austin Agile 2018
Image Credit
Special Guest: Walter Bodwell.
Sponsored By:
- Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG
1 hr 1 min - Episode 64: Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio
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 also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.
More- Recorded Talk on Istio.
- Twitter: cmluciano_
- His website.
- His LinkedIn.
Special Guest: Christopher Luciano.
Sponsored By:
- Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG
1 hr 27 min - Episode 63: JJ Asghar on DevOps, Compliance and Grilling
JJ Asghar from Chef 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 and how it could have been prevented. Finally, we find time to talk about gas grills, building Linux from scratch and what it takes to be an Eagle Scout.
One more thing, we also explain how JJ got his nickname "NO_SSH_JJ."
JJ wants you to go to ChefConf in Chicago May 22-25. Tell him his friends at Software Defined Interviews sent you.
More stuff from us:
- Listen to our other podcast Software Defined Talk
- Subscribe to the Newsletter
- Join us in Slack
- Buy a Software Defined Talk T-Shirt use code SDTFSG for 20% off.
- Send your name and address to [email protected] and get a free laptop sticker!
Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
1 hr 10 min - Episode 62: Nancy Gohring on monitoring, observability, DevOps, & M&A
This is a really fun and great episode with Nancy Gohring on monitoring, log management, DevOps, M&A in the space, and tech journalism. Also, we finally get the most concise analysts of the $3.7bn Cisco/AppDynamics deal that I’ve ever heard. If you’re the type of person who knows the words “observiblity,” “The Big 4,” SNMP, or even just DevOps, you’ll like this episode.
Nancy Gohring covers application and infrastructure performance for 451 Research, including IT monitoring, application performance management and log management. Check her out in Twitter: @ngohring.
You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!
There’s some more detailed show notes as well.
Special Guest: Nancy Gohring.
Sponsored By:
- Software Defined Talk: You know you want a Software Defined Talk t-shirt! With this code, you can get 20% off. WHAT A GREAT DEAL! Promo Code: SDTFSG
Links:
- Nancy in Twitter
- Nacy's 451 research
- Nancy's recent report on the Application and Infrastructure Performance Market
1 hr 8 min - Episode 61: Jon Collins on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
“It’s quite good to see GDPR as an evolution, not a revolution.”
The EU is rolling out a huge privacy data regulation policy this Spring, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you do anything with “customer data,” you should probably at least take a look at it. Companies like Facebook and others who use customer data to work with third parties are gonna have GDPR all up in their grills. In this interviews episode, we talk with Jon Collins who’s been writing about GDPR of late from his perch in the UK. Jon’s an excellent analyst and always has incisive takes on enterprise IT related matters, as well as music (sadly, not featured in this episode).
You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!
Brandon Whichard, Coté, guest Jon Collins.
Show- Putting people on the line for data handling problems.
- Defining legit use for data: like updating on products bought, recommending other things to buy based on past buying. But, when it comes to holding you’re kid’s interest and other creepy thing, stuff comes into effect. Can’t hoard data now, have to justify why you’re doing it at least.
- So, sort of: if a third party gets ahold of the data, you need to spell out to the end-user what the data is and how it’ll be used.
- They started thinking about GDRP in 2005; it’s taken then 12 years for them to come up with this.
Jon on GDPR, and more- “GDPR, a topic about which I feel strangely sad [about]”
- Summarize it - ensure data can be encrypted, provide data on-demand, notify of data breaches (but just in unencrypted?), appoint CDO, somehow describe policy to end user (is this a set policy or can organizations differ it?), data must stay in EU (unless protection stuff is done off-shore)
- How’d this come about?
- “IT professionals expect that compliance with GDPR will require additional investment: over 80 percent of those surveyed expect GDPR-related spending to be at least $100,000.” (Book of all knowledge)
- In use: “Facebook needs to ask people if it can use status posts as input to its advertising engines, whereas Google does not need to know someone is — its AdWords algorithms generate information based on search requests, location and so on, without being personally identifiable.”
- Meanwhile, “we will consent to have our privacy even more eroded than it already is.” What exactly should we care about with data privacy: how does an individual think through what Facebook does, Axcion, Target, the government, foreign governments, etc. - aka, Jon vs. The McNealy Privacy Principal (it’s dead, get over it).
- Generalizing to Jon’s five rules of cyber security.
Background- Covering tech: “It’s a conundrum: when to say something out loud, even if it’s been said before?”
- @jonno
- Jon’s author page on Amazon
- Newsletter
- Podcast
- Gigaom Column
Credits: header image from warrenrandalcarr.
Special Guest: Jon Collins.
51 min - Episode 60: Sell-side financial analysts, & enterprise software pricing
What do these financial, equity analyst types do? Well, if the stock market was rational, we could probably tell you. This week, we look at one PDF reporting on cloud and try to make sense of it. Also, we discuss enterprise software pricing, THE DANCE!
More detailed show notes, including the charts, are available.
1 hr 3 min - Episode 59: Fear of FANG
Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.).
This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from The Economist. They also have a smaller version in their “Leaders” section. As always, there are much more extensive, detailed show notes available as well.
You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts and fill out the contact form with your mailing address if you’d like some free stickers!
1 hr 6 min - Episode 58: Who is the CISO?
With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security.
59 min
About Software Defined Interviews
From the publisher's feed
Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like