Tech Lounge

As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City [http://unit.City]. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one? Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt Robotics about his experience programming industrial robots designed for single purpose tasks that use their own programming languages to newer robots that use C++ or Python to handle broader tasks that humans throw at them. http://www.gestalt-robotics.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

To those of us addicted to our smartphones, the myriad of applications we can install and what we can achieve (or time waste) with them is astounding. But for those of us working in corporate or other industries that value business privacy and secrecy, the freedom that apps give us and that we give them, is a little too risky. Enter the role of mobile app management services that sit between a device and the limitations that a company wishes to impose upon it. Apperian are one such company in the field, offering features such as app security, distribution, policies, logging and much more. I sat down with Mark Lorion, President and General Manager at Apperian to discuss what the company offers and how they keep up with the constant demands and changes of their customers and mobile platform creators. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

This week Cate and Chris discuss smarter ways to hire developers, ethics in tech and more. Show notes at - gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris spoke with Dustin Kirkland, VP of product development and Jamie Bennett, VP of Devices and IoT Engineering at Canonical to understand more the strategy behind Ubuntu Core and Snaps. Image from - https://medium.com/@penk/how-to-boot-the-raspberry-pi-3-from-usb-with-ubuntu-core-24df33b0fd60 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris interviews Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large amount of contributors to the project, balancing diverse commercial and cultural differences whilst still maintaining a regular release cycle. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris and Cate interview numerous people from IFA and Startup Night Berlin 2017. https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Dataiku Interview by Gregarious Mammal --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris and Cate recount one crazy week in Berlin covering IFA, the France vs Germany IoT battle, Armenian startups and the long night of Startups. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris speaks with Mark Brocato of Sencha about their new cross platform data-driven components for the React framework, and how the company made JavaScript more advanced years before anyone else. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Chris speaks with Ben Maddox of the Perfect Information podcast to talk about the past, present and future of technology in Board Games. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

This week Cate and Chris discuss the intersections of journalism, immortality, music, romance and government with technology. Show notes at http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show at http://gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

I spoke with Robert Reeves, CTO and Co-founder of Datical, a company that aims to remove the pain that database administrators (DBAs) experience on a regular basis attempting to make changes to database heavy applications. They do this by bringing easy to use tools inspired by practices from the DevOps world to the traditionally messy world of enterprise databases, with change simulation, rollbacks, rules engines, packaging databases as code and strong monitoring. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Big Data analysis generally involves piping large data sets into processing systems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop, walking away for a very long coffee and returning later to a hopefully successful result. The DevOps and continuous build ecosystem has long employed linters, code analyzers and application profilers to discern potential trouble and optimization points in code, and Pepperdata want to bring that practice to the Big Data world. I spoke with CEO Ash Munshi, formerly CTO of Yahoo and consultant to other data heavy tech companies about what the company offers, and how their customers save hours from running inefficient processing jobs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

This week Cate and Chris discuss how smart phones are destroying a generation, cybersecurity, documentation, tech diversity and more. Show notes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] Support us - gregariousmammal.com/support [http://gregariousmammal.com/support] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com [https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]