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Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.
Scaling MySQL with Planet Scale
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Scaling MySQL with Planet Scale

23/09/2020
In this episode I speak with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane of Planet Scale, a solution for scaling MySQL on Kubernetes.  I also cover Mozilla, returning to the office, Canonical, and can open source be bought? ht…
Christian Nunciato - Pulumi in Action
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Christian Nunciato - Pulumi in Action

16/09/2020
In this episode I speak with Christian Nunciato, author of Pulumi in Action from Manning. Use podchinc19 for a 40% discount code, or andy of the codes below for a free eBook: * piaccpr-6BF3 * piacc…
Contentful with Paolo Negri
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Contentful with Paolo Negri

09/09/2020
In this episode I speak with Paolo Negri about their API-first content platform. Also features the story of Bullfrog, history books for roleplayers, judging an open source project, and more. Watch my DXpose livestre…
D&D and Teams with Karthik Nagarajan
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D&D and Teams with Karthik Nagarajan

03/09/2020
This episode I speak with Karthik Nagarajan about the advantages of running roleplaying games for teams, look at computer user groups, fraud, and a JavaScript version of Civilisation 6. https://chrischinchilla.com/podc…
KubeCon EU 2020
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KubeCon EU 2020

27/08/2020
In this episode I speak with Vijoy Pandey (Cisco), Amith Nair (HashiCorp), and Michael Friedrich (GitLab) about their announcements and highlights from KubeCon as well as my own personal highlights. * chrischi…
Robert Reeves of Liquibase
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Robert Reeves of Liquibase

21/08/2020
Robert Reeves joins me after a 2 year gap to discuss bringing DevOps practices to the database world. I also cover Zoom's amazing quarter, the end of PhoneGap, the end of the Beatles, and the end of WW2 (in Japan).…
Confluent Cloud with Dan Rosanova
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Confluent Cloud with Dan Rosanova

10/06/2020
In this episode I speak with Dan Rosanova from Confluent about Kafka, their cloud offering, and project Metamorphosis. I also cover news from the past week including Developer Experience 101, Google Docs as an act of res…
Kubernetes as a Service with Spectro Cloud
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Kubernetes as a Service with Spectro Cloud

13/05/2020
This week I speak with Spectro Cloud about their new Kubernetes as a service offering, and also take a look at operating system market share changes, Skype just isn't cool, Apple's T2 chip woes, gaming, and Stephen Wolfr…
Scalable Graph databases with TigerGraph
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Scalable Graph databases with TigerGraph

29/04/2020
I speak with Gaurav Deshpande of TigerGraph about their highly scalable graph database. Also features GDPR 2 years later, Flutter, JavaScript, grounded airplanes, cats, and more. * https://chrischinchilla.c…
Decentralized entertainment with Breaker.io
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Decentralized entertainment with Breaker.io

23/04/2020
In this episode I speak with Troy Murray of breaker.io [http://breaker.io], a decentralized ecosystem that empowers creators and delivers fans classic and original content. Also features news items on technology in a tim…

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