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Code Monkey Talks

Code Monkey Talks

Brian R. Jackson, Brian Demers

A weekly tech podcast for software developers hosted by Brian Jackson and Brian Demers.

  • 50 minutes 7 seconds
    Bonus: Just The Brians

    The joys and tribulations of moving, working remotely, meetups, KCDC 2017, and using Trello to organize your family life.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Sponsored By:

    • Audible: Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/codemonkey. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.
    • DevOpsDays Hartford: Get 20% off a ticket to DevOpsDays Hartford, Oct 10-11. Promo Code: CMT2017
    18 August 2017, 4:00 pm
  • 59 minutes 9 seconds
    Episode 15: GitHub with Aziz Shamim

    Aziz Shamim of GitHub joins us to discuss 1Password Travel Mode, ransomware and cryptocurrencies, Keybase on mobile and Star Wars turns 40!

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Aziz Shamim.

    Sponsored By:

    • Audible: Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/codemonkey. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

    Links:

    • AgileBits Blog | Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
    • WCry ransomware worm’s Bitcoin take tops $70k as its spread continues | Ars Technica
    • Keybase is out for iPhone, Android | Hacker News
    • The GitHub Blog: Engineering
    • Thrawn (Star Wars) Audiobook | Audible.com
    • Amazon.com: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Second Edition: Christian T. Petersen
    • Amazon.com: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story [Blu-ray+DVD+Digital HD]: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn, Guy Henry, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Jimmy Smits, Gareth Edwards, Screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, Story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta, Based on Characters Created by George Lucas: Movies & TV
    • Amazon.com: Star Wars: A New Hope (Limited Edition Steel Book) [Blu-ray]: Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Mark Ford, Harrison Ford, George Lucas: Movies & TV
    • AWS: aws_iam_access_key - Terraform by HashiCorp — This was the Terraform resource that uses Keybase that I referenced in the show.
    • Amazon.com: Ohuhu Legend of Zelda Ocarina 12 Hole Alto C with Textbook Display Stand Protective Bag: Musical Instruments
    26 May 2017, 4:00 am
  • 40 minutes 56 seconds
    Bonus: StackState with Lodewijk Bogaards

    Lodewijk Bogaards, CTO of StackState, discusses the philosophy and architecture of StackState including their revolutionary 3T Data Model for delivering their mission to be a window into every company's topology. Learn more about it on their engineering blog.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Lodewick Bogaards.

    Sponsored By:

    • Audible: Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/codemonkey. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

    Links:

    • StackState Blog — The 3T Data Model of StackState
    • StackVista/sts-agent: The StackState agent gathers telemetry and topology for StackState. — The StackState agent gathers telemetry and topology for StackState.
    • raboof/connbeat: Agent exposing connection-related information, based on the Elastic Beats framework — Connectionbeat: Agent exposing connection-related information, based on the Elastic Beats framework
    24 May 2017, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Episode 14: Hobsons with Greg Greenlee

    Greg Greenlee, DevOps Engineer at Hobsons, an education SaaS company, discusses followup on Java's Jigsaw, IoT security threats, and Microsoft announces Windows 10's bash will get Fedora and SuSE support and Visual Studio for Mac. Greg also shares with us his experience founding his professional platform for people of color called Blacks In Technology.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Greg Greenlee.

    Sponsored By:

    • Audible: Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/codemonkey. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

    Links:

    • JDK 9 modules voted down by EC | Hacker News
    • Director of National Intelligence warns of IoT security threats
    • Most smart TVs are tracking you — Vizio just got caught - The Verge — Brian J meant to say "Vizio" during the show this week.
    • Bash on Windows 10 goes beyond Ubuntu and gets support for Fedora and SuSE, too | TechCrunch
    • Visual Studio for Mac
    • Education Advances | Hobsons
    • RightScale Cloud Management
    • How To Create A Neural Network in JavaScript - Scrimba screencast — In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a simple neural network with the Synaptic.js library. We're creating a 2,3,1 network that learn how to perform an XOR operation.
    • Dual Core
    • Dual Core - Band Camp
    • repl.it - React Native Compiler
    • Join codemonkey on Slack!
    • Code Monkey Talks on Reddit
    12 May 2017, 5:00 am
  • 46 minutes 16 seconds
    Episode 13: Azure and Kubernetes with Brendan Burns

    Brendan Burns, Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure and co-founder of Kubernetes discusses the MP3 patent expiring, MSBuild conference, secure coding neglect and the future of distributed computing.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Brendan Burns.

    Sponsored By:

    • Audible: Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/codemonkey. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

    Links:

    • MP3 Freedom Day, April 16, 2017
    • Microsoft Build Developer Conference | May 10 – 12, 2017 — Washington State Convention Center, Seattle WA #MSBuild
    • The alarming state of secure coding neglect
    • Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services
    • Kubernetes
    • Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia — Impostor syndrome is a concept describing high-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud".
    • LEGO Ideas - Introducing LEGO® Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V
    • Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
    • Fidget collection - Thingiverse
    • XYZprinting da Vinci Jr. 1.0w 3D Printer: Amazon.com
    5 May 2017, 5:00 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Episode 12: A Floor Wax and A Dessert Topping with Bridget Kromhout

    Bridget Kromhout, Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal joins us to discuss Space Camp, Boom Supersonic, Docker creates The Moby Project.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

    Links:

    • Arrested DevOps Podcast
    • China Talking With European Space Agency About Moon Outpost - Bloomberg
    • Space Camp
    • Boom - Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
    • Introducing Moby Project - Docker Blog — A new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement
    • Monitorama 2017 PDX
    • Bill Nye Saves the World - Wikipedia
    • The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change eBook: Camille Fournier
    • Escape Room Directory
    • Batman™: Arkham VR | Oculus
    • Batman™: Arkham VR | Steam
    • Batman™: Arkham VR | PlayStation VR: PlayStation 4
    • IMAX VR
    • NetHack
    28 April 2017, 4:00 am
  • 51 minutes 15 seconds
    Episode 11: HashiCorp with Mitchell Hashimoto

    Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, joins us to discuss if code is art, designing open source code for varying audiences and AWS CodeStar.

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Mitchell Hashimoto.

    Links:

    • Code Is Not Art - Agile Sensei
    • Programming is an Art | Ruben Verborgh
    • HashiCorp
    • Introducing AWS CodeStar — Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
    • DevOps Defined | HashiCorp
    • jq — jq is like sed for JSON data
    • Writing An Interpreter In Go | Thorsten Ball
    • Reconfigure.io — Program FPGAs with Go
    • Here's everything announced at Wednesday's AWS Summit | PCWorld
    • HTTPie – command line HTTP client
    20 April 2017, 5:00 am
  • 58 minutes 4 seconds
    Episode 10: Pivotal with Matt Stine

    Matt Stine, Product Manager at Pivotal joins us to discuss news about Jenkins Blue Ocean 1.0, Deis is bought by Microsoft, Amazon Aurora

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Matt Stine.

    Links:

    • Jenkins | Blue Ocean
    • Software Architecture radio
    • Amazon Aurora now supports cross region replication
    • What Is a Von Neumann Probe?
    • The Leftovers: Season 1 [Blu-ray]
    • Concourse: CI that scales with your project
    • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) by Dennis Taylor
    • Deis to Join Microsoft
    • The Phoenix Project
    • The DevOps Handbook
    • The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage: Cliff Stoll
    14 April 2017, 3:00 am
  • 45 minutes 3 seconds
    Episode 9: Honeycomb with Charity Majors

    Charity Majors, founder & CEO of Honeycomb joins us to discuss exploratory learning through rich data, as well as news about Blue Origin, FaunaDB, Resin.io

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Charity Majors.

    Links:

    • Honeycomb :: Powerful, Exploratory Learning with Richer Data — Honeycomb is a power tool for engineers. Inspect or debug applications, services and storage layers in real time.
    • Jeff Bezos Says He Is Selling $1 Billion a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space - The New York Times — Standing against the backdrop of his New Shepard rocket booster and a full-scale mock capsule for carrying humans into space, Jeff Bezos revealed on Wednesday that he was selling about $1 billion in Amazon stock a year to finance his Blue Origin rocket company.
    • FaunaDB Technical Whitepaper — In this paper we introduce a platform approach that moves beyond both SQL and NoSQL. Our approach works to increase the degree of abstraction between operational and functional concerns. We refer to this approach as the adaptive operational database.
    • Serverlessconf: The future will be serverless. London, Tokyo, New York.
    • Resin.io — Resin.io brings the benefits of Linux containers to the IoT. Develop iteratively, deploy safely, and manage at scale.
    • Data diving with Scuba — Scuba is a system we developed for doing real-time, ad-hoc analysis of arbitrary datasets. It marks a significant evolution in the way we collect and analyze data from the variety of systems that keep the site running each day.
    • Open Whisper Systems | Signal App — Privacy that fits into your pocket.
    • Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy: Barbara Ehrenreich: 9780805057249: Amazon.com: Books — Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture.
    • Settlers of Catan, 5th Edition
    7 April 2017, 3:00 am
  • 1 hour 17 seconds
    Episode 8: Threat Stack with Pete Cheslock

    Pete Cheslock joins us to discuss working at Threat Stack and the latest WikiLeaks Vault 7, Github's permissive IP ownership for employees, Google Cloud Spanner.

    Special Guest: Pete Cheslock.

    Links:

    • Cloud Spanner | Automatic Sharding with Transactional Consistency at Scale  |  Google Cloud Platform — Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. With Cloud Spanner you enjoy all the traditional benefits of a relational database: ACID transactions, relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime), SQL queries, high performance, and high availability.
    • Amazon.com: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August eBook: Claire North: Kindle Store
    • Amazon.com: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2) — From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.
    • Sameroom
    • Vault7
    • Sensu | Full-stack monitoring for today's business.
    • GitHub's new Balanced Employee IP Agreement (BEIPA) lets workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects — Quartz
    • Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (PDF)
    • youOps - Delivery begins with You — I turned our joke into a launch page for laughs.
    24 March 2017, 3:00 am
  • 56 minutes 48 seconds
    Episode 7: Robots for your Mobile Device Testing with Jason Huggins

    Jason Huggins, founder of Tapster, cofounder of SauceLabs and Selenium, joins us to discuss testing automation in both the virtual and physical realms.

    Correction: Jason meant "Montezuma's Revenge" when he referenced "Pitfall" in this week's show.

    In the News

    • Google launches 1.0 of its AI platform TensorFlow
    • Microsoft's Informatics and Robotics Platform for simulating the real world
    • Netflix releases HubCommander

    Something to Do

    • Six Wakes
    • Visit Tapster’s new office neighbor, Happy Apple Pie Shop. They just had their Grand Opening yesterday (February 14, 2017).
    • A Tour of Go

    Credits

    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

    Special Guest: Jason Huggins.

    20 February 2017, 11:00 am
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