Podcasts

Listen to cloud-native experts talk about the latest in technology in building modern software.

  • Developer Platforms and Productivity, with Serdar Badem

    Developer Platforms and Productivity, with Serdar Badem

    Fresh from working on developer platforms at Uber, Serdar Badem tells us his experience working on improving developer productivity. He's working at Tanzu now and so he also discusses the work...

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  • What is ”waste” in software development? With Steve Pereira

    What is ”waste” in software development? With Steve Pereira

    The phrase "value stream" is used so often in software development that it's easy to forget exactly what it means. "Waste" is another word like that. In this episode, Coté talks with Steve Pereira...

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  • Re-thinking tech debt, developer productivity, & better meetings, with Laura Tacho

    Re-thinking tech debt, developer productivity, & better meetings, with Laura Tacho

    In this episode Coté talks with Laura Tacho, the CTO of DX on several topics, starting with tech debt. Laura shares her viewpoint on how the concept and use of 'tech debt' changes based on...

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  • Keep it small to make big changes, with Betty Junod

    Keep it small to make big changes, with Betty Junod

    You always hear that making a series of small changes is better than BIG BANG change. How does this really play out though? Doesn't that seem a little...naive when it comes to large organizations...

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  • What is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage?

    What is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage?

    Ben educates Coté on what Backstage is. Coté is always thinking that new tech does more than it actually does, and he eagerly de-scopes his inflated expectations with Ben's wiseness. This is the...

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  • What is a Service Mesh? And Why Would You Want One?

    What is a Service Mesh? And Why Would You Want One?

    The three of us are back to discuss what a service mesh is and why it exists as a stand-alone thing. The result we come to is that you want this kind of network control and management as its own...

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  • Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover

    Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover

    What does a car manufacture need to do to speed up their software delivery cycle? Manufacturing is often finely tuned following lean and other principles, but the software development and delivery...

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  • The Business Doesn’t Care About Kubernetes as a Kost Center. They Care About This, with Bryan Ross.

    The Business Doesn’t Care About Kubernetes as a Kost Center. They Care About This, with Bryan Ross.

    Coté talks with Bryan Ross about fitting Kubernetes (and it's use) into the business strategy. Check out Bryan's YouTube channel for more Bryan.

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  • A Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, also, COBOL, with Paul Kelly

    A Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, also, COBOL, with Paul Kelly

    "75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly" reads a recent Forrester Consulting...

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  • Manage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere, From Anywhere with Tanzu Mission Control, with Corey Dinkens

    Manage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere, From Anywhere with Tanzu Mission Control, with Corey Dinkens

    In this episode, Coté talks with Corey Dinkens about Tanzu Mission Control. The most recent version can now run on-premises, meaning those who can't run it as a public SaaS now can run Tanzu...

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  • Platform marketing, advocacy, DevEx, documentation, and Backstage

    Platform marketing, advocacy, DevEx, documentation, and Backstage

    So you've built an app platform. And those pesky developers aren’t showing up to use. Or, worse, they grumble about it! Did you remember to tell anyone about it, to convince them to use it? You...

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  • Changes in the RHEL Streams, and, what is Crossplane?

    Changes in the RHEL Streams, and, what is Crossplane?

    This week, Ben and Ed try to help Coté understand what the changes in RHEL open source development mean. We don't figure it out completely, but get close enough. Also, Ed tells us what Crossplane...

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  • Cloud Foundry Day 2023

    Cloud Foundry Day 2023

    Right after Cloud Foundry Day 2023, Nick and Coté do a quick re-cap of the day. Taking place in Germany, there were many people from the German community, and elsewhere of course. Nick goes over...

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  • Cloud Foundry: Community, Developer Experience, Kubernetes, and more, with Ram Iyengar

    Cloud Foundry: Community, Developer Experience, Kubernetes, and more, with Ram Iyengar

    Cloud Foundry is one of the most mature, most proven platform as a service stacks. And it's open source! Ahead of CF Day on June 21st, 2023 (in person and live), Coté catches up with Ram Iyengar,...

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  • What’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”?

    What’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”?

    In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with Abby Bangser about the platform maturity model draft that the platform working group at the CNCF has been working on. While the draft is a work in...

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  • Cloud Native Security & Compliance, with David Zendzian

    Cloud Native Security & Compliance, with David Zendzian

    We talk about getting PCI compliance into Kubernetes, and other security think in the cloud native world. Securing Tanzu Application Service and Tanzu Application Platform. David Zendzian talks...

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  • Sausages and Cycling - Coding with AI/LLMs, microservices vs. monoliths, kubernetes vs. application developers

    Sausages and Cycling - Coding with AI/LLMs, microservices vs. monoliths, kubernetes vs. application developers

    This week, Coté and Ben talk about using AI for software development, and general text use. They check in on Kubernetes usability for application developers, and give their takes on the recent...

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  • The Smells of the Kubernetes Community

    The Smells of the Kubernetes Community

    We discuss what we did at KubeCon, the recent VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey, and the smells of platform engineering maturity. Also, some tips on daily logging and to do list...

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  • How to change mainframe apps into  microservices, modernizing mainframe applications with Fouad Hamdi

    How to change mainframe apps into microservices, modernizing mainframe applications with Fouad Hamdi

    In this episode, Coté is joined by Fouad Hamdi, to discuss a project he worked on to modernize of a 30-year-old mainframe app. Fouad provides a comprehensive breakdown of how he and his team at...

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  • Creating the business case for platform engineering, Kerry Schaffer

    Creating the business case for platform engineering, Kerry Schaffer

    A lot goes into getting a platform up and running. Before you even get to that point, though, you’ll need to put together a business case and the plans for your platform. In this episode, Coté...

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