Software Defined Interviews
Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like
Episodes
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Episode 102: The brilliant dummy in my pocket, with WhitneyGPT
June 11th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
In this episode, Whitney and Coté discuss Whitney's newfound enthusiasm for AI.
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Episode 101: A Passion for Politics, with Taegan Goddard
May 29th, 2025 | 57 mins 36 secs
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Taegan Goddard, founder of Political Wire. They talk about what drives people to go above and beyond in their work, especially journalism like Tegan does. There's some fun conversation about how Tegan runs the business, keeping up his never ending coverage. Having run the site for well over two decades, they also talk about how the back-end stack has evolved over the years. And, some notes on how to make a great cup of coffee.
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Episode 100: "I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza," startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff
May 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and balancing commercial and community interests, moving to Europe, and more!
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Episode 99: Catering to Startups, with Robert Reeves
May 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
Whitney and Coté talk with Robert Reeves about startups, catering, the Austin's tech scene, and the business of open source over the past 20 years.
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Episode 98: From OpenStack to Kubernetes, extreme transparency at GitLab, tech startup marketing, with Melissa Smolensky
April 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
Whitney and Coté tour through a couple decades of tech infrastructure history with Melissa Smolensky
, whose marketing career spans Rackspace, GitLab, CoreOS, and the CNCF, among other places. -
Episode 97: The Business and Ethics of Open Source, with Emily Omier
April 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 22 mins
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Emily Omier, a consultant specializing in open source strategy and product management for businesses.
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Episode 96: Learning, teaching, tech certifications, and napkin culture in Singapore, with Mumshad Mannambeth
March 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
In this video, Coté and Whitney talk about tech education and learning with Mumshad Mannambeth. There's talk about certifications, but also how teaching online works and what it's like when it scales up to millions of people. Plus, Coté tries to figure out how to get access to more napkins.
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Episode 95: Success in Tech, Content Creation, & Corporate Influence, with Hazel Weakly
March 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Hazel Weakly about the unexpected success of content, the influence of corporate interests in open source, her experiences transitioning as a trans woman in tech, and the importance of emotional vulnerability in the tech industry.
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Episode 94: Adding more condiments to the 7 layer networking burrito, with Marino Wijay
February 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
Why do we keep adding new layers and frameworks instead of just fixing the ones we have? They also talk about the challenges of platform engineering, the importance of empathy in tech, the difficulties of integrating multiple layers in tech stacks, the essential role of effective communication and prioritization, and EmpathyOps.
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Episode 93: 10x People, AI Trends, and Career Management, with Richard Seroter
February 6th, 2025 | 59 mins 23 secs
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Episode 92: What went wrong with PaaS, and many other topics with Brian Gracely
January 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, Coté and Whitney host Brian Gracely, co-host of the Cloudcast podcast and head of portfolio strategy at Red Hat.
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Episode 91: Learning to learn, with Sasha Czarkowski
January 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
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.
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Episode 90: Community management, event nightmares, and domestic Tupperware diplomacy, with Katie Greenley
December 26th, 2024 | 58 mins 28 secs
Katie Greenley shares her experiences managing events and community programs like the CNCF Ambassadors.
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Episode 89: How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor Farcic
December 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
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 avoidance of asking for directions, or, really, talking with people in general.
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Episode 88: Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser
November 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
Sure, we talk about platform engineering, but more importantly, business cards.
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Episode 87: Platform Engineering, AI, and Community - Whitney's KubeCon NA 2024 Adventures
November 25th, 2024 | 48 mins 6 secs
Whitney is back from KubeCon and shares what she saw. Topics include: platform engineering, AI integration with Kubernetes, and community engagement.