In this Drunk and Retired cameo episode: What's up with Irish and Italian names, and why is the Irish brand so much bigger than the Scottish brand? Also, it seems like there's a lot to learn from 2,000 years of Europeans fighting. Charles and Coté quickly meander through all of this.

Links:

• Ongoing topics list — Rolling list of ideas for things to talk about here.
• Gulf Shores, Alabama — A fine place for a beach vacation.
• The Horse of Pride — It’s like _Hillbilly Elegy_, but for 20th century France.
• frontmacs.el — "A package-based, web-centric, customizable, awesome-by-default, acceptance-tested Emacs distribution curated by your friends at Frontside."
• swiper.el — "Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!"

Without a build pipeline, you might as well pack it up and go home. Matt Curry and I talk about his team’s experience with putting a pipeline in place and dip a bit into how Concourse and other options, like Jenkins. Matt also goes over some of the common meatware barriers to getting CI/CD in place.

Find us here: @mattjcurry and @cote.

All these cloud-native apps don’t magically figure out how to talk with each other themselves. They need to usual help with finding each other (registries) and then mediating and managing their ongoing “chatter” with one-another (API gateways). While killing time at the Pivotal booth at OSCON, I talked with Spencer Gibb who works on these things and more in Spring.

As organizations get deeper into improving how they do IT, they’re interested in replicating the collaborative benefits of open source communities. Jono Bacon has worked in this space for many, many years and shares some of his experiences here with Barton George and I, while we were all at OSCON. Jono also goes over some of the important parts of community management.

See also the video of this interview.

Special Guests: Barton George and Jono Bacon.

Abby Kearns talks with Barton and I about what's up at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. We also discuss the encouraging people at enterprises (users of software, not vendors) to share more of best/worst practices and knowledge with each other.

See also a video of the interview.

Special Guests: Abby Kearns and Barton George.

At DevOpsDays Austin, 2017, Barton George and I talk with Patrick Debois.

See also a video of this interview.

Special Guests: Barton George and Patrick Debois.

At DevOpsDays Austin 2017, Barton George and I talk with Diego Lapiduz about his experience introducing and managing a cloud platform for the US government and, now, his work at Pivotal.

Special Guests: Barton George and Diego Lapiduz.

Just under a year later, Brian Gregory is back to tell us how changing over Express Script's approach to software is doing. As ever, it's mostly about meat-ware and Brian gives good, casual overview of management tactics to get everyone to the seemingly simple state of doing the right thing.

Special Guest: Brian Gregory.

Coté doesn't like asking people to do things for him...or people in general.

Links:

• 070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda, The Frontside Podcast — Always be DevOps'in'.
• Paleo French Cuisine - Kindle edition by Chef Alain Braux. Cookbooks, Food & Wine Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — Less beans, more fruit.
• Southern Culture On The Skids: Dirt Track Date — Good hold music.
• Frijoles charros - Wikipedia — These are the best means that humanity has come up with to date.
• Pivotal Conversations: Cloud-Native Monitoring & PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65) — In an open source business, you have to figure out how to ask people for money.
• Show Topics and notes — Our ongoing list of show topics and scratch-pad for shows.
• What Makes People Do What They Do? Freakonomics — The Israeli pay for being late to pick up your kid story.
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable — Actually pretty good.
• Maestro's Classic Beard Butter Wisemen's Blend 8 Ounce — This is what Coté uses, but you can feel free to skip caring about beard-care for the first two years or so.
• GitHub - felipeochoa/rjsx-mode: A JSX major mode for Emacs
• Menlo Font

Matt Curry is back! In this episode recorded at OSCON 2017, we discuss the problems with getting people to change, from staff to management, private sector and government.