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- 1 hr 3 min
- Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode
Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers.
Mood board:
- They got money, kicking out the Nazis
- Have you tried saying it louder?
- It came out fine.
- The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms.
- Long form commercials.
- Webinar as conference.
- Sitting in a Zoom.
- People don’t want to show up and consensually watch a YouTube video.
- The Wine Bottle Leads.
- The Minecraft Yellers.
- The pink slurry of enterprise software content.
- There’s nothing at the bottom of their funnel.
- I know all those things, I just don’t like them.
- HigherGradeWebinars.biz
- The conclusion of the plutes.
- Today was the last day of school for the kids. Tomorrow, the nightmare begins.
The Rundown- The New Conference
- Apple’s virtual WWDC wasn’t just okay—it could be the future of keynotes
- Google Next over 9 Weeks
- In the first cohort of HEY signups, 37% have converted to a paid account!
Relevant to your interests- Email Is Broken
- Analysis: Here are five strategic options for Dell and VMware
- Arm Macs and AMD rising: How Intel's endless 10nm struggles cost it so much
- US police using Chinese drones are ‘at risk’ of data breach, DHS warns
- Amazon jumps into self-driving taxis with purchase of Zoox
- Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation
- Your Place to Talk
- An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming
- Ranking the Observability Offerings - APM Experts
- Flying
- Secret Flying | Cheap Flights & Error Fares
- Jack's Flight Club | Cheap Flights, Flight Deals & Alerts
- Interactive Route Map of Low Cost Airline flights in Europe
- Alternative Airlines | Book Flights on 100s of Airlines
Nonsense- Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks
- Big Red soda is the secret to make deliciously tender smoked pork chops
Conferences- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype- Listen to interview with Kylie Grenier about Digital Transformation
- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Land of the Giants podcast.
- Matt Ray: Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway.
- Coté: Euro breakfast on the go.
1 hr 5 min - Episode 244: Kylie Grenier on Digital Transformation
Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology. They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job.
Kylie on the web- Twitter: @CurrentKylie
- LinkedIn: kyliegrenier
Image credit
Special Guest: Kylie Grenier.
1 hr 6 min - Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers
Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.
Mood board:
- One
- How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet?
- I got the Call Recorder!
- Brand Police.
- You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing.
- Dunning Keurig
- Yeet your email.
- I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it.
- People just throwing tickets into the wind.
- Awk yeah
- You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray.
- I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news.
- The Builders.
- We got piles of clip art.
- Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary.
- MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess”
- There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving.
- Watch the get to school on time tapes.
- John Irving Parenting.
- Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad.
The Rundown- Kool Keith interview: “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.”
- Luxury Email
- Cote reviews HEY
- Outlook update: e works in the Mac desktop app.
- Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
- Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple
- Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect
- M&A
- ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle
- Not sure about people who use the word “infra.”
- I think it’s a configuration store that plugs into CI pipelines - sort of like a ConfigMap for Jenkins.
- “SWEAGLE provides a quality gate for your configuration data. Includes versioning, management, and validation of all types of config data.” https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin
- It will run validates to make sure the hostname is valid, there are no empty values, etc. Has a JavaScript SDK for writing validation code.
- ServiceNow integration that extracts confit from CMDB. https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow
- Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business
- Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely
- Apple Talk
- Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs – TechCrunch
- The End of OS X
- Apple Docker Tweet
- Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
- Are you actually changing?
Relevant to your interests- Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension
- Spotmicro - robot dog by KDY0523
- The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs
- Fortnite’s new season has flooded the map
- The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer
- Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform
- WSJ News Exclusive | Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware
- Amazon is looking to add live TV to Prime Video
- kelseyhightower/nocode
- Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024
- Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations
Nonsense- Chocolate Digestives
- Scottish Man tries Southern Snacks
- Emoji Search Finally Coming to iOS in iOS 14
- Not enough public toilets in Amsterdam especially for women, wheelchair users
- BYE
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Conferences- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype- Listen to interview with Brian Gracely
- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: **The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis; Trust Fall : Invisibilia.
****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music- Coté: Razer Kiyo.
Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.
Sponsored By:
- strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.
1 hr 7 min - Episode 242: Brian Gracely on OpenShift
On this episode Brandon interviews Brian Gracely from Red Hat. They discuss Brian's early career at Cisco, his experience with OpenStack, why he joined Red Hat and what's happening with OpenShift. Plus, Brian tells us what it's like to be a VP of Product at a startup and recommends some College Football Podcasts to get us through the off season.
Mentioned on the Show- Solid Verbal
- The Andy Staples Show
- The POPCAST with Dan POP
OpenShift- learn.openshift.com
- demo.openshift.com
- try.openshfit.com
Brian on the web- Podcast: The Cloudcast
- Twitter: @bgracely
- LinkedIn: briangracely
Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
54 min - Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails
Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries.
Mood board:
- I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles.
- I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did not like it. Or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park.
- How many instructions are in the ARM chip?
- Are we gonna start the show?
- That looks boring.
- What is a biscuit in Australia? A hazy space between crackers and cookies.
- More sugar than a Ritz
- It’s a medical grade cookie.
- The Mexican Bakery Trap.
- Just get the tacos.
- Hey!
- I’ve got 500 email addresses, how am I supposed to disappear?
- I think there’s like, 12, 13 calendars on my Mac.
- We got to the bottom of HEY!
- Marketing Oblique Strategies.
- The Seth Godin problem.
- The Purple Moo.
- Welcome to the Halo Effect.
- For your 6 to 50 page strategy memo, email me at [email protected].
- You didn’t make a TV show that people wanted to watch.
The Rundown- Hey, do we need a new email service?
- Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp
- DHH calls Apple a monopoly
- Market Power
- Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse
- Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair
- Google brings Meet to Gmail on mobile
- Hey Larry Ellison: Microsoft’s #1 Priority Is Replacing Oracle Database
- Epic Games seeking to sell stake for $750 million at $17 billion valuation
- Too much typing from Coté, from Coté’s newsletter last week.
Relevant to your interests- Softbank invested in Credit Suisse funds financing its Vision Fund bets.
- Nintendo now says 300,000 accounts breached by hackers.
- Big Footy data breach exposed private details of up to 100,000 users.
- Adobe Flash Player End of Life.
- Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files.
- Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500.
- Panera adds geofencing to curbside pickup.
- T-Mobile offers an explanation for its twelve-hour outage on Monday.
- Zoom will offer full encryption to free users after all.
- Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches.
Nonsense- Toilet advocates plead for more public facilities during corona.
SponsorstrongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT
Listener Feedback- Sent to stickers to Robert in the U.K. He tell us big data is happening in the UK were retailer was able to save millions by using big data to optimize when they stock their shelves.
- Sent stickers to Daniel in Vancouver. He tell us he loves the show.
Conferences- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
SDT moment of bureaucracy- Listen to interview with Todd Gardner
- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: USPS Informed Delivery and 1917
- Matt Ray: Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes ’98). Humble Fight for Racial Justice Bundle.
- Coté: Short Life in a Strange World, short review in Coté’s newsletter last week. KUTX streaming.
Outro: Ice-cream and Chips.
Sponsored By:
- strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.
1 hr 8 min - Episode 240: Todd Gardner on building Web Apps with JavaScript
Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS. They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you...
Show Links- Lemon
- OVHCloud
Contact Todd- Twitter: @toddhgardner
- Company: TrackJS
- Latest Project: Request Metrics
- Email: [email protected]
- Personal Website: todd.mn
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Special Guest: Todd Gardner.
1 hr 9 min - 1 hr 9 min
- Episode 238: Shannon Williams on Kubernetes-as-a-Service
Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs. They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain.
Contact Shannon:- Twitter: smw355
- LinkedIn: smw355
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash
Special Guest: Shannon Williams.
51 min - Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”
What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.
Mood board:
- Sounds normal for now.
- It was kinda cool, kinda sad.
- Covered in yoke.
- We just had to speed test it out.
- Katamari Damacy M&A.
- I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!
- The ProductTK.
- 7G.
- What’s the plural of Kubernetes?
- Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?
- Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.
- Return the Jewels.
The Rundown- Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software
- Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions
- DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes
Relevant to your interests- What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates
- Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge
- GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware
- Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence
- Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager
- Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher
- Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence
- Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral
- Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies
- Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground
- Police scanner apps get record downloads
- Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use
- Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs
- Where GREP Came From - Computerphile
- Software Engineering Within SpaceX
Nonsense- Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives
- the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute
Listener Feedback- Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea.
- Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too.
Conferences- MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey
- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts.
- Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4.
- Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks.
Header photo from Andrew, probably.
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