Beyond the world of Apple, startups, and unicorns there's a whole world of technology used by all the donkeys out there in organizations. That's where I've always had my head stuck and this podcast is my "crank file" of content that didn't fit in the other podcasts I do.
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2025-01-09 | What’s it really like to do all that DevOps-y transformation at companies? That’s what we talk about this week with Sasha Czarkowski…mostly. We also discuss learning how to learning, metrics, staying sane in chaotic systems and change, breaking present... |
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2024-12-26 |
Community management, event nightmares, and domestic Tupperware diplomacy, with Katie Greenley Katie Greenley shares her experiences managing events and community programs like the CNCF Ambassadors. Coté, Whitney, and Katie also discuss career development, managing a community team, and the delicate art of introducing cereal decanting into the h... |
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2024-12-11 | In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution of DevOps, project managing a content creation engine of one, and the virtues of imperfection. Also, the strategic avoid... |
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2024-11-28 |
Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser 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 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/), and Kratix (https://www.kra... |
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2024-11-25 |
Platform Engineering, AI, and Community - Whitney's KubeCon NA 2024 Adventures 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 episode wrap tips for maximizing attending conferences. Also, memories of Arby's ads. |
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2024-11-13 | 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'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 | 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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