Podcasts Technology The Cloudcast The Cloudcast #257 - Surviving in a Software-Eating World

The Cloudcast #257 - Surviving in a Software-Eating World

Published: June 22, 2016, 4 a.m.

b'Brian talks with Matt Colyer (@mcolyer; Product Manager at @github | Founder of Flagr and Easel) about the evolution of \\u201csoftware is eating the world\\u201d - how application development is evolving; how companies are changing the organizations and process; how IT organizations are dealing with open source software and how SaaS applications like GitHub have to evolve.
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  • Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let\\u2019s talk about your background, not only at Github, but also as a developer and entrepreneur prior to Github.
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  • Topic 2 - We all know the famous \\u201csoftware is eating the world\\u201d quote from Marc Andreessen, but this means that more companies must be building their own software. Let talk about what Github sees from that perspective - establishing software development as a core business competency. (\\u201cinsourcing\\u201d)
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  • Topic 3 - It\\u2019s been interesting to watch more companies, not just vendors, actively participate in open source communities - not just using the software, but actively contributing to existing projects and starting their own projects.
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  • Topic 4 - The public cloud has awesome services available, but not every company feels like they can use the public cloud, so we\\u2019re seeing more \\u201con-premises\\u201d offerings from public cloud companies. Can you talk about the benefits and challenges of these offerings?
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  • Topic 5 - What\\u2019s a trend that you\\u2019re seeing from smaller companies that you don\\u2019t think enough larger business follow today, but could be easily adopted to make them better at software development or just more agile as a business?
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