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2024-11-13

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

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, t...
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2024-10-31

  Kubernetes Cost Controls and Washing Horse Blankets, with Phil Andrews

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 s...
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2024-10-19

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

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 (https://www.linkedi...
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2024-10-02

  Whitney Lee

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 (Co...
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2020-07-17

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

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 and like mo...
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2020-07-06

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

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. "Everyone" kn...
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2019-10-31

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

We discuss outsourcing IT.
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2019-09-11

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

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 side of the h...
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2019-09-09

  Monolithic Transformation

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,” everyone s...
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2019-07-09

  Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations

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 how to get...
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