Software Defined Interviews

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 money. There's other types of comp. then money, obviously, and those are fine too. In particular, we discuss participation in open source and more recognition. But, still: money is the best.

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" knows this is a bad strategy, and yet "everyone" does it. Perhaps we should embrace that behavior, or at least be empathetic, and figure out how to work with it. We discuss this problem and things to do in this episode. Also, we find out why Coté always has bad breath. Mood board: (6:30) - The daily, normal fears are going to drive what a business does more than large, one-off crises. If your inventory is on an AS/400, then you're in trouble. A chaos monkey for business, or, training for the unexpected. "When there's not a crisis, every penny is squeezed out of technology." Outsourcing, but the harmful type. Hold your customers close, know your evolving storefront. Now, software is the primary storefront. To improve, you must have an enemy. (20:51) "If you're trying to modernize, do this 'digital transformation,' it has to come from a place of an existential problem." (21:26) To prepare for a major disruption, you have to prepare for a bunch of minor, incremental disruptions. You have to sell [the return] on paying for change. (25:51) If you want to justify paying for continuous delivery, you have to find a problem to solve. (27:41) They're bean counters, so just count the beans for them - just give them some beans and they're happy. (28:58) As technologist, our views on revenue are not considered important or valid. (29:21) Fear and loss are often easier to quantify, e.g., "if the database goes down, the business halts, and we loose millions a minute." Growth potential is harder to quantify and pitch, so we often ask for money based on fear and loss. (29:36) "Even though I think about revenue streams, I've never been taken as seriously when I talk about them, as when I talk about fear." Finding people outside of IT that care about software, like, in "the business." (32:55) The only reason for technical agility, is business agility. (33:44) If you do live through a crisis, try to internalize your failure to prepare so you only learn once from crisis, not again and again. (35:33) The Business needs the fear, and then needs to ask IT to help with some optimistic technology action...cause no one's gonna believe IT.

We discuss outsourcing IT.

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 house isn't showing up to do anything with CLOUD and AGILE and THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. Why's this the case? Do toothpaste people have this problem? Outsourcing - that's a treat! And so forth. Hopefully next episode we'll discuss tactics to get people outside of IT interested. Subscribe at https://misaligned.business And, check out Coté's work in progress book on this topic: https://cote.io/bottleneck/

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 says. Changing culture for a team of 10 people is easy - changing a department of 20,000 developers is another challenge entirely. Based on case studies and interviews over the past five years, this talk describes how large organizations are getting over that challenge. First, the talk covers moving from a project to a product mindset and the associated practices. Second, it covers how DevOps and cloud platforms enable that product mindset. Third, it goes over how leadership and management change to support this new approach. Finally, the talk catalogs tactics, patterns, and organizational structures that large organizations are using to improve how they do software which leads to improving their business. This talk is based on my book Monolithic Transformation (O'Reilly, Feb 2019). You can download the slides if you like, and they pop-up as chapter art if your podcast app supports that.

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 started with Kubernetes. Show links: Hatching Twitter (https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087) GORILLA.BAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_video_game) IBM Extreme Blue (https://www.ibm.com/employment/extremeblue/) Eclipse Marketplace (https://marketplace.eclipse.org/) Eclipse Foundation (https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/explore.php) CNCF Charter (https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/charter.md) The universal data plane API (https://blog.envoyproxy.io/the-universal-data-plane-api-d15cec7a) Universal Data Plane API Working Group (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-H-pQ2mmhBPX_U9pP3mMMUbEpZskxBdEbwd5KlivY4/edit#heading=h.hphw9gdcmb90) Contact Chris: @cra (https://twitter.com/cra) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/) More Software Defined Talk Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Subscribe to Software Defined Talk Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) Follow @SoftwareDefTalk on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk) Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Special Guest: Chris Aniszczyk.

Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive. Links Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-ae3355316494) We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619) Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://sfosc.org/) Follow Adam at @adamhjk (https://twitter.com/adamhjk) Check out the Software Defined Talk Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

Jeff Meyerson is the host of Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/). We talk about his career and what led him to start a daily tech podcast for software engineers. We also talk about current trends in cloud computing and Jeff recounts his career as professional poker player. Topics: Darknet Diaries Chartbreakers Episode (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27/) Who Is Michael Ovitz? (https://www.audible.com/pd/Who-Is-Michael-Ovitz-Audiobook/B07DJZBDK4) Where to find Jeff Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/) Jeff Meyerson (https://jeffmeyerson.com/) @the_prion (https://twitter.com/the_prion) Special Guest: Jeff Meyerson.

Version control has changed a lot over the past 15 years: we've moved from a centralized to a distributed model at the basic level. But the practices people follow have changed and grown as new methodologies like DevOps and continuous delivery have relied on version control for operational stability and reliability. In this interview, Coté talks with Plastic SCM (https://www.plasticscm.com/)'s Pablo Santos (https://twitter.com/psluaces) to get the low-down and some tips on doing version control better. We also discuss Plastic SCM (https://www.plasticscm.com/) and how their approach to semantic merging (https://www.semanticmerge.com) and mergebot-driven automation addresses version control toil. This episode is sponsored by Plastic SCM (https://www.plasticscm.com/), that is, it's a paid interview. Special Guest: Pablo Santos.

Brandon interviews Umair Khan about his experience working in AI Ops and Cloud Security. Umair recently joned Scytale (https://www.scytale.io/) and he explains how the SPIFFE open soruce project (https://spiffe.io/) can help secure communication between cloud services. Contact Umiar: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/khanumair/) @UmairMoheet (https://twitter.com/UmairMoheet) Why I joined Scytale (https://medium.com/@umairmoheet) Special Guest: Umair Khan.

Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time. Connect with Jake: * @moilanen (https://twitter.com/moilanen) * LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemoilanen/) Special Guest: Jake Moilanen.

Zane Rockenbaugh specializes in working with early stage startups. Most of the time his clients are boostrapping their new compnay and need someone technical who can help build version 1.0. In this episode, we talk about Zane's career and what it's like to be a "Startup CTO." Most importantly, we talk about his experience of taking raw ideas and turning them into real products. To work with Zane contact him at Liquid Labs (https://liquid-labs.com/) Special Guest: Zane Rockenbaugh.

Coté talks about his job being an "evangelist," a word people no longer seem to use but everyone understands. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists. Brandon interviews Coté about what the job is, what the work's like, and some examples (other than himself) of people who do it well. As the two discuss, it's a weird job.

When Coté says he doesn't know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers. Fine more from Rachel on her RedMonk blog (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/), and in Twitter (https://twitter.com/rstephensme). Special Guest: Rachel Stephens.

Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin's career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: * Dustin's Blog (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com) * Dustin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland) * Dustin's presentation at Google Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be) * Run-one (http://launchpad.net/run-one) * Vasa Museum (https://www.vasamuseet.se/en) Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

How do you implement IT Automation best practices at a large company? What's the best approach to convince stakeholders that IT Automation is worth the effort? In this interview with Acxiom's Chris Donaldson we talk all about the good, the bad and ugly of IT Automation.. We discuss his career and how his previous experiences shaped his view of IT Automation. He offers practical advice on automation, weight lifting and how best to secure shade at the beach. Links: Jobs at Acxiom (https://acxiom.jobs/conway-ar/senior-release-deployment-engineer/7ADDC0D58B574521B0467A0A4975E506/job/) Floret Microservices (https://github.com/Acxiom/floret) Special Guest: Chris Donaldson.

Brandon speaks with Matthew Brutsché (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbrut/) from 500 Rockets Marketing (https://500rockets.io/). Matt gives us his bold predications based on his recent shopping experience at the Amazon Go store in Seattle. Plus, we talk about the evolution of digital marketing and what it means to launch a product into the market. Links: Amazon Go Store (https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011) 500 Rockets Marketing (https://500rockets.io/) Quick Concall iPhone App (https://www.quickconcall.com/) Special Guest: Matt Brutsche.

Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula (https://www.linkedin.com/in/skodukula/) about product management. We compare product management at large companies and startups, discuss how to validate your next startup idea and when to build your minimum viable product (MVP). Notes: Marc Andreessen on Product/Market Fit (https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html) More about Satish: Chief Winning Officer (http://www.chiefwinningofficer.com/) Austin Software Consulting (https://www.austinsoftwareconsulting.com/) All Star Pick (https://allstarpick.com/) Wrap up with Software Defined Talk plugs Check out our other podcast: Software Defined (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com) Talk (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com). A weekly round up of all the news in Enterprise Tech. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Special Guest: Satish Kodukula.

Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. “Analyst relations” is sort of like PR, but actually pretty different. You want to, of course, drive influence with the analysts, but also consume the content and advise they're putting out. And while there's two major firms in the tech world - Gartner and Forrester - there's plenty of other firms and individuals to work with. In this episode, Coté talks with Rita Manachi who's been doing AR for over a decade about all of this, plus some advice on selecting drinks and using iPads in meetings. Special Guest: Rita Manachi.

This is a great conversation with John Mitchell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwilliammitchell/) about Duke Energy improving it's software capabilities, doing “digital transformation,” as the kids like to call it. We start from the beginning of what kicked the company off, a shift from COTS software to mobile apps and analytics. We then discuss a couple initial projects that Duke transformed, including one that didn't work out so well, and one that did. Throughout, John shares what he team learned and how they made it happen. Also, we discuss the use it or loose nature of the electricity grid. Apologies for the audio quality on John's end, I neglected to ask him to make sure his mic was set-up properly. Special Guest: John Mitchell.

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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Crowe#Early_life), apologies. AlienVault (https://www.alienvault.com/) - unified security for threat detection, incident response, and compliance. More Javvad in Twitter: @j4vv4d (https://twitter.com/j4vv4d). Javvad over at AlienVault (https://www.alienvault.com/blogs/author/jmalik). Javvad's fantastically funny and informative YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq8hLs9gIPbazI32Eq2AA). J4vv4ad.com (https://www.j4vv4d.com/) - all Javvad, all the time. Javvad's 451 work (https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Javvad+Malik). Special Guest: Javvad Malik.

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 (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/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 (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/new-paths-to-helicon). Replace of Augment? (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/replace-or-augment) Not Biting My Tonge (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-biting-my-tongue): “Where things go wrong is when stodgy enterprise vendors put on their dad-jeans and go down to the skate park.” Algorithmic Reality (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/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 (https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer). More In Twitter: @dwellington (https://twitter.com/dwellington). His blog (http://findthethread.postach.io/). Articles at DevOps.com (https://devops.com/author/dominicw/), IT Chronicles (https://www.itchronicles.com/author/dominicwellington/). Special Guest: Dominic Wellington.

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 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wbodwell/) 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 (http://www.planigle.com) www.walterbodwell.com (http://www.walterbodwell.com) Agile Austin (http://www.agileaustin.org) Keep Austin Agile 2018 (http://conference.agileaustin.org) Image Credit (https://twitter.com/chrissmouse/status/910305604413087744) Special Guest: Walter Bodwell.

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZQcu1dwlQ). Twitter (https://twitter.com/cmluciano_): cmluciano_ His website (https://cmluciano.github.io/). His LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmluciano/). Special Guest: Christopher Luciano.

JJ Asghar (https://twitter.com/jjasghar) from Chef (https://www.chef.io/) 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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/uber_quit_github_for_custom_code_after_2016_data_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 "NOSSHJJ." JJ wants you to go to ChefConf (https://chefconf.chef.io/) 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 (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) - Subscribe to the Newsletter (https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21) - Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) - Buy a Software Defined Talk T-Shirt (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk) use code SDTFSG for 20% off. - Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and get a free laptop sticker! Special Guest: JJ Asghar.

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 (https://451research.com/analyst-team/analyst/Nancy+Gohring) application and infrastructure performance for 451 Research, including IT monitoring, application performance management and log management. Check her out in Twitter: @ngohring (https://twitter.com/ngohring). You can now buy Software Defined Talk t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk) and fill out the contact form with your mailing address (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact) if you'd like some free stickers! There's some more detailed show (/doc/Interviews-062-Nancy-Gohring-on-monitoring-observability-DevOps-MA-ujL9e8zjHB5Og1omXirvy) notes as well. Special Guest: Nancy Gohring.

“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 (https://twitter.com/jonno) who's been writing about GDPR of late (https://gigaom.com/2018/01/11/will-gdpr-fail-beyond-the-new-regulation/) 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 (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk) and fill out the contact form with your mailing address (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact) if you'd like some free stickers! Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Coté (https://twitter.com/cote), guest Jon Collins (https://twitter.com/jonno). 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation)) In use (https://gigaom.com/2018/01/11/will-gdpr-fail-beyond-the-new-regulation/): “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 (https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=deb992a367), “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 (https://mailchi.mp/84acf426bb46/bulletin-january-26-2018-whence-cybersecurity-and-trust?e=b3386b4844). Background Covering tech (https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=d6b6541917): “It's a conundrum: when to say something out loud, even if it's been said before?” @jonno (https://twitter.com/jonno) Jon's author page on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jon-Collins/e/B0034P4X38) Newsletter (https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=a9c0ea0ab601731d6af8c675b&id=df3ab02947) Podcast (http://bluecube.libsyn.com/) Gigaom Column (https://gigaom.com/author/joncollins/) Credits: header image from warrenrandalcarr (https://pixabay.com/en/school-paper-binder-education-934051/). Special Guest: Jon Collins.

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 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP018-Sell-side-financial-analysts-enterprise-software-pricing-HZQSZVFX0hOWmWJrWJLLN), are available.

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!

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. 

In this episode we look at two tech world artifacts: weekly, curated links in email newsletters and the trends and predictions presentation. Ben Evans does both of these and provides great pieces to do some deep reading.If you're not a man, make sure you take the listener survey. (We got plenty of male-responses.)See the detailed show notes.

This week, we look at the tech editorial page, columns that people like Matt Asay and Coté write. First we discuss if this is even a category, and then go over three columns Coté has written recently.(Slightly) more detailed show notes over in paper.

Community surveys are a handy tool for tracking momentum, proving legitimacy, and, of course, understanding the state of the community. “Community” doesn't have to be all rainbows and sandals - open source - but it often does. This week we look at the most recent OpenStack Community Survey.See more detailed show notes.

Murder and comedy podcasts are all fun and dandy, but they're strategically used by tech companies as well as marketing. This week, we look at some common formats, how they're done, and how to consume them.Detailed show notes: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Corporate-Podcast-EBCing-azErWSniyTIDSTn8cQn1U

This week, we look at one of the new analyst models, and what they do, by way of Ben Thompson. Horace Dediu and RedMonk are other examples of this model, but Ben Thompson is the highest flying, most interesting practicer now. Ben's business model is pretty straight-forward: a partial paywall around his some of his weekly content, podcast sponsorships, and (maybe?) consulting.Also, the DC steak scene, BLT Steakhouse's odd way of cooking a steak. Brandon says to go to Charlie Palmer's.Check out the more detailed show notes and links.

This week we look at The Four. Coté had high hopes. More importantly, we look at the medium and mechanics of a business book.More detailed show notes and such.

The big fluffy, leather chair interview is a staple of the tech world now. A big named executive (usually) comes up on the stage with a big name journalist and is interviewed in a “wide ranging” discussion. In addition to videos of these being broadcast, tech outlets often write summaries - news stories even - based on the interviews, and others sometimes post “lighted edited transcripts.” One of our favorite news sites, CRN, does this often. And while they do the sleazy thing of making 20-35 pages out of what should be a, at most, two page story, they're usually good interviews if you're into the the topic. Continuing a discussion we started in SDT #108,  we look at three of these interviews, giving us the chance to a close reading of the interviews themselves and talk about the format in general.The three interviews: (1.) Meg Whitman, HPE; (2.) Steve Singh, Docker; (3.) Pat Gelsinger, VMware. All of them, of course, are CEOs.See the more detailed show notes for more.

This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it's like to brief them, and our imagination of what it's like to be a tech reporter.See the detailed notes for more.This episode was made free since we haven't been recording the regular show.

Press releases are a high art in our trade. There's certain formats to follow, the audiences are always precise, and making a good one is a sign of a cunning PR pro. This week, we look at  a funding announcement from Heptio. It follows the classic form fairly well, so you'll see how general press releases are done and some attributes of the funding press release.See more detailed show notes.

In part two of our cloud-native enterprise architect talk, we discuss the more technical functions of the EA. We think of these as the "southbound" functions. Special Guest: Matt Walburn.

We discuss a recent Forrester Wave: “The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q3 2017.” See more detailed notes here.

On the DevOps question: sure they do, but there are many variations depending on the company.

This week, we talk about two PDFs setting out to briefly describe the kubernetes and great container orchestration landscapes. See the usual more detailed write-up and analysis elsewhere (a href="https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE)." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE).This episode was also made free in the regular Software Defined Talk podcast feed - marketing!

This week's paper is sent in by Matt Ray: “Continuous Automation for the Continuous Enterprise.”See detailed, typed analysis in the show-notes, find the paper attached, and enjoy the podcast in your members only RSS feed.

We look at the 2017 Gartner PaaS Hype Cycle, just released. See more show notes, though not very detailed here.As always, thanks for being a supporter!

It's another in the Matt Curry discussions sub-series! We discuss how enterprise are shifting over to a microservices approach, or not. As Matt explains: “A lot of enterprise are trying to figure out how to do microservices…but what they're actually trying to figure out how to do is small, empowered teams that can independently release.”

We discuss what the deal is with Canadian whiskey and then talk about why we like The Economist. Your pals, @cowboyd (https://twitter.com/cowboyd) & @cote (https://twitter.com/cote).

IoT will be big by 2035, a trillion devices driving a $1tn of spend/year, according to this paper. How does one come to that figure, and what exactly is IoT. Even better, how would you put together the business case to justify doing an IoT project? Well, you'll get an average of 5x returns, the paper says, so that's a compelling start. Also, you should buy some ARM chips. Put together by one of ARM's investor relations people, this paper is squarely targeted a money people interested in IoT and ARM.See also the raw notes on the paper, references, and more details on the paper. Also, of course, available as a PDF attached here.This paper in question (attached here, as well) was suggested by Alek.As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it's super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that'd be fun to over-analyze!

This week, Brandon and Coté talk analyze Coté's 2016 stump-speech, Not a DevOps Talk. We talk about the process of putting together a talk like this, how it flows, and the desired effect and rhetoric behind it all.See the extensive show notes and much more detail in the attached PDF or online. There's also a bonus write-up about two of Coté's Register columns.As always, thanks for being a patron of Software Defined Talk, it's super-encouraging and meaningful. If you liked this episode, perhaps send the attached PDF (as all great white papers are transmitted) and encourage your friends to check out both Software Defined Talk and to become a patron get our exegesis episodes.Please tell us what you think and suggest any white papers, talks, press releases, or other tech world ephemera that'd be fun to over-analyze!

Let's finally get to the punchline on this “cloud-native enterprise architect” quest. Here, Matt Curry (https://twitter.com/mattjcurry), Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea), and I (https://twitter.com/cote) discuss the things that would motivate such a role and try to chart out what functions the cloud-native EA would serve. This still doesn't answer the question perfectly, but it does point towards good why's and even some how's. We do alright at trying to pull it all together. Rough Outline Business “outcomes.” “So what is it you'd say you do here?” Marketing and sales for tech decision making - getting budget, etc. The EA Strawperson - biz/IT alignment, governance, proscribing stacks Risk-modeling and procurement costs get better EA as the ROI whisperer. SRE book discussions, Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-google-sre-book-with-andrew-shafer) #58 (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-google-sre-book-with-andrew-shafer) (Andrew and Coté). The technology, and what's new? AWS RDS as an (almost) end-to-end example. So, EA's jobs to this point: business stuff… versus defining the platform and tech choices (e.g., “use this pagination library or die!”). But: product people do the business stuff… you prescribe one platform/PaaS… and then most teams now choose their own stuff above the platform. And doesn't microservices do the rest…? Cloud-native EA's probably spend a lot more attention to process, like SRE-thinking… reducing duplication of services… someone has to have a global, big picture view of everything. Being a change agent: boot-strapping to this DevOps/cloud-native/blah blah The ultimate goal: the business wants to evolve quickly, try new things to try to grow and defend itself quicker; the IT must work, or, at least, be resilient; I don't want to pay a lot for this muffler; making it easy to do the right thing. # Background Past discussions on cloud-native EA: Pivotal Conversations #72 (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/the-fat-baby-in-the-water-cloud-native-enterprise-architecture-ep-072) and Coté Show #36 (http://www.cote.show/36). Some rough notes on research (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zA4K9SR1cV_GvA3S-KtZfYrgO854VZuo1rDwtlTd-0Q/edit). Books: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy (http://amzn.to/2gO5bEW) and Continuous Architecture (http://amzn.to/2ufgwCA).

Our first white paper review, starting with "what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in Dropbox Paper.You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who'll be getting this.Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you'd like us to go over.Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that'd be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.