Computers And Shit

In this episode Joel and Julio discuss tribalism in IT. Topics of the week include the increasing move toward containerization, serverless computing, and putting all your eggs in one vendor basket. Joel also misquotes Werner Vogels famous saying, “Everything fails all the time.”

In this episode Joel and Julio discuss the work life imbalance all too common in IT. They also touch on topics of the week including the Dice.com annual IT salary survey, and alternatives to MacBook Pros for IT professionals.

In this episode, Joel and Julio discuss the pros and cons of different working environments in relation to a new study showing that open plan workspaces reduce rather than increase employee interactions. They also discuss the topic of the week of Microsoft discouraging Internet Explorer use.

This week Joel and Julio discuss everything “as a service” (*aaS), from the ridiculousness of slapping *aaS on every cloud offering, to trying wade through the definitions of IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, FaaS, and low code. We also cover the stories of the week including the Azure data outage.

In this episode Joel and Julio cover how to get started in IT, automation replacing jobs at a rapid pace, and the problems caused H1B abuse in the industry.

Joel and Julio in their inaugural Computers and Shit podcast discuss their backgrounds, the origins of the name, encryption backdoors, and the pros and cons of consulting vs corporate jobs.