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- Episode 129: The Extinction of Enterprise Architects, Fifty Secrets Managers, and Deodorant Before AI, with Rick Clark · 1 h 1 min · Episode 129Rick Clark is Global Head of Cloud Advisory at UST, and co-founded OpenStack. His argument is that enterprise architecture is nearly extinct, killed off by fifteen years of…
- Episode 128: Animated Bedtime Stories, Telling Dummies What to Do, and Why Docker Lost, with Viktor Farcic · 1 h 2 min · Episode 128Viktor Farcic is a developer advocate at Upbound, runs the DevOps & AI Toolkit YouTube channel, and was last on the show back in episode 89. Whitney and Coté start with the…
- Episode 127: The KubeCon Drone Demo, CFP Reviewing at Scale, and the Agentic AI Foundation, with Lin Sun · 1 h 4 min · Episode 127Lin Sun is Head of Open Source at Solo.io, a recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon program co-chair, and an emeritus member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Whitney and Coté…
- Episode 126: DevOpsDays, Technical Storytelling, and Loading the Dishwasher, with Jason Yee · 1 h 5 min · Episode 126Jason Yee is a Staff Technical Advocate at Datadog and one of three global co-chairs of DevOpsDays, and both jobs turn out to be mostly about getting other people to talk…
- Episode 125: Running D&D with AI, Determinism First, and Workflow ROI, with Michael Rishi Forrester · 1 h 13 min · Episode 125Michael Rishi Forrester does AI workforce transformation at Accenture LearnVantage, after three years at KodeKloud and about thirty years in IT before that. Whitney and Coté talk…
- Episode 124: The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross · 1 h 9 min · Episode 124Bryan Ross is a Field CTO at GitLab, a role he describes as straddling sales, customer success, and solution architecture - or, as one of his customers renamed it, chief therapy…
- Episode 123: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis · 1 h 9 min · Episode 123W. Edwards Deming was a physicist, statistician, and quality theorist who taught post-war Japanese manufacturers what eventually became the Toyota Production System - and…
- Episode 122: Hardened Runtimes, the CEO Job, and Raising as an All-Woman Founding Team, with Emily Long · 1 h 7 min · Episode 122Whitney and Coté talk with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera, about building a hardened container runtime that secures infrastructure foundations instead of chasing…
- Episode 121: Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus · 1 h 13 min · Episode 121Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers…
- Episode 120: Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse · 1 h 8 min · Episode 120Whitney and Coté talk with Heidi Waterhouse, co-author of the book Progressive Delivery. You can watch the video of the recording as well, if you're into that kind of thing…
- Episode 119: AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer · 53 min · Episode 119Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste - those are the major topics Coté and Andrew discussed this week at the live…
- Episode 118: AI Doesn’t Fix Bad DevOps: Lessons from 15 Years of DORA Data, with Nathen Harvey · 1 h 14 min · Episode 118Coté and Whitney talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud. They talk about what 15 years of DevOps and delivery data actually says about AI…
- Episode 117: From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li · 1 h 9 min · Episode 117In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a "cloud-native human" with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her…
- Episode 116: The Octopus Organization, with Jana Werner · 1 h 13 min · Episode 116The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the co-authors, Jana Werner talks with Whitney and Coté about those patterns and…
- Episode 115: The AI Tools Lab, conferences, devrel, with Jason Hand · 1 h 14 min · Episode 115Whitney and Coté chat with Jason Hand. They discuss the challenges and rewards of organizing conferences, the impact of the pandemic on in-person events, and the nuances of…
- Episode 114: Whitney goes to KubeCon · 1 h 9 min · Episode 114This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations. Watch the YouTube Live…
- Episode 113: Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer · 1 h 11 min · Episode 113Whitney and Coté talk with Andrew Clay Shafer, co-founder of Puppet and principal at an advisory firm, about the nuances of DevOps transformation, open source dynamics, and…
- Episode 112: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies · 1 h 17 min · Episode 112We talk with Russell Davies this episode. He has done many things, above all else made lots of interesting content and messed around with producing content. Advertising, blogging…
- Episode 111: The uncontrollable urge to click "publish," with Manton Reece · 1 h 15 min · Episode 111Blogs! Whitney and Coté talk with Manton Reece, founder and owner of micro.blog. They talk about journaling, the urge to write and publish, and a whole lot about blogging, social…
- Episode 110: Cows, Tech Careers, Working at Microsoft, and Even More About Cows, with Saad Ansari · 1 h 10 min · Episode 110In this episode, Whitney and Coté speak with Saad Ansari, a product manager at Databricks, about his journey from working at Microsoft to co-founding a startup focused on…
