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In this episode, we talk to our first guest on the show, Jessica White, about running non-profit side hustles likes community user-group events and sponsor supported software developer conferences.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business f...

Free as in Freedom is a bi-weekly oggcast about legal, policy and other issues in Free, Libre and Open Source Software

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started w...

In this pilot episode, Steve and Kevin will introduce themselves and their businesses and discuss what it felt like to finally quit their day jobs.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Am...

In this episode, Steve and Kevin talk about the hardware, software, and services they use to run their businesses.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebo...

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 49:34 — 34.1MB) Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.   News Nextcloud 14 …

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it.

TIBCO was started in the 90’s with a popular message bus product that was widely used by finance companies, logistics providers, and other systems with high throughput. As TIBCO grew in popularity, the company expanded into other areas through products it developed in-house as well as through acquisitions. One acquisition was Jaspersoft, a business intelligence

Engineers can build applications faster by using tools that abstract away infrastructure. Major cloud providers offer this tooling in the form of functions-as-a-service, as well as managed services such as Google BigQuery or Azure Container Instances. The term “serverless” refers to these functions-as-a-service and the managed services–because when you use these tools, you are not

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:35 — 30.7MB) It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, …

In this episode, Stephen and Kevin talk about how feasible the 4-hour workweek is them.   My new book - The Path to Freedom: Starting a Business for the Reluctant Entrepreneur - is OUT NOW from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebook. https://geni.us/thepat...

We have some fun with our names, get ahead of ourselves during Survey Says, and vet Michael's tip on-air as we take a deep dive into comparing some popular Git workflows and when should we use which.

Shopify runs more than 600,000 small business websites. When Shopify was figuring out how to scale, the engineering teams did not have a standard workflow for how to deploy and manage services. Some teams used AWS, some teams used Heroku, some teams used other infrastructure providers. To manage all those stores effectively, Shopify has built

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 45:03 — 31.0MB) Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. …

Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy containers at scale. How have containers changed effectively everything and where are we heading?

Web developer Katie Fenn joins us to look at how remote working is structured across the team bringing npm to the world. We discuss what you need to be a successful remote worker and what employers need to provide for great remote working experiences.

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:01:35 — 42.4MB) With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution …

We talk with Ben Halpern the founder and webmaster of dev.to — a community for developers to talk about software. Last Wednesday they open sourced the codebase of the dev.to platform, so we wanted to talk through all the details with Ben. We talked through the backstory, how Ben realized this could become a business, h...

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 49:03 — 33.7MB) Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:46 — 30.8MB) Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more.   News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s …

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 56:32 — 38.9MB) It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s …

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:18 — 29.8MB) We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great …

Containers have improved deployments and resource utilization. Kubernetes created a platform to manage those containers and orchestrate them into distributed applications. In today’s episode, we explore tools that improve the workflow of the application developer who is working with Kubernetes, including Helm, Draft, and Brigade. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, which allows users

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 44:44 — 30.8MB) It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018!     FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the …

-For those just starting on their computer science journey, there are more options than ever. Traditional degrees, apprenticeships, bootcamps and self teaching are all routes for beginners into meaningful work in technology. Github's Joe Nash joins us to look at these different options, as well as education for mid-career and senior technologists.

Hear insights and reactions from Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they break down the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub — from speculation to confirmation — including commentary from members of the developer community by way of Twitter and Slack.

The world of software moves faster than the laws that regulate it. When software companies do get regulated, that regulation is often enforced unevenly among different companies. Software continually presents the legal system with new requirements. Consumer data privacy needs to be enforced on a granular level. Software developers need a system of protecting their

Deploying software to a container presents a different security model than deploying an application to a VM. There is a smaller attack surface per container, but the container is colocated on a node with other containers. Containers are meant to have a shorter lifetime than VMs, so there are generally fewer consequences if a container

Play Podcast (extra): Download (Duration: 42:04 — 29.0MB) The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu.   KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint …

Josh and Kurt talk about the security of automation as well as automating security. The only way automation will really work long term is full automation. Humans can’t be trusted enough to rely on …

Gloo is a function gateway built on top of the popular open source project Envoy. The goal of Gloo is to decouple client-facing APIs from upstream APIs. Gloo is similar to an API gateway, which is a tool that software companies can use to collect all their APIs and one place and impose security, monitoring,

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 53:53 — 37.1MB) A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption …

Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the ...

Alexis Le-Quoc started Datadog in 2010, after living through the Internet boom and bust cycle of the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2010, cloud was just starting to become popular. There was a gap in the market for infrastructure monitoring tools, which Alexis helped fill with the first version of Datadog. Since 2010, the

Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught UI/UX Designer and Front-End Developer working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently the Technical Lead at Big Cabal Media. She says the Next Billion Users are coming online now and they'll be outside Western countries and they'll be mobile first. What do we need to know as Web Developers to create great apps and sites for the Next Billion?

Technology is pushing us rapidly toward a future that is impossible to forecast. We try to imagine what that future might look like, and we can’t help having our predictions shaped by the media we have consumed. 1984, Terminator, Gattaca, Ex Machina, Black Mirror–all of these stories present a dystopian future. But if you look