Application Modernization: A Podcast for High-Growth Software Companies
Technology Podcasts
You want to grow your business. But first, you need to successfully modernize your infrastructure to handle it. Enter Application Modernization, a show that spotlights the forward-thinking leaders of high-growth software companies. From scaling applications and accelerating time to market to avoiding expensive licensing costs, we discuss how you can innovate with new technology and forward-thinking processes and save some cash in the process.
Join us as our expert guests delve into the challenges they faced during the technological transformation of their companies and share what they learned along the way.
Location:
United States
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Technology Podcasts
Description:
You want to grow your business. But first, you need to successfully modernize your infrastructure to handle it. Enter Application Modernization, a show that spotlights the forward-thinking leaders of high-growth software companies. From scaling applications and accelerating time to market to avoiding expensive licensing costs, we discuss how you can innovate with new technology and forward-thinking processes and save some cash in the process. Join us as our expert guests delve into the challenges they faced during the technological transformation of their companies and share what they learned along the way.
Language:
English
Episodes
How Shadow-Soft is Helping its Customers Solve Technology Challenges
3/29/2023
What's your biggest and hairiest technology challenge?
Listen to this Fireside Chat, where Nick Marcarelli and Ross Beard discuss some of the top challenges faced by enterprise organizations.
Learn how Shadow-Soft solves these challenges for customers, including specific examples and key insights. Discover more about what Shadow-Soft invests in to support its customers on their Kubernetes Maturity Journey.
Learn more about Shadow-Soft and download the free framework at shadow-soft.com
Duration:00:27:03
Solving the Kubernetes Talent Shortage
2/27/2023
Attracting Kubernetes talent is hard but not impossible. In this episode, Ross Beard returns to the podcast to turn the tables on host Nick Marcarelli. We discuss ideas on why there’s a Kubernetes skills shortage and learn about some creative things that companies are doing to solve this problem.
Nick shares insights on what Shadow-Soft is doing to attract and retain top talent, and we dig into a recent prediction from Linkedin’s COO, Daniel Shapero, who thinks now is the time for non-tech...
Duration:00:29:39
Inheriting Kubernetes Day 1
12/13/2022
A lifelong developer that discovers the power of Kubernetes, that’s how Robert Kozak, DevOps Architect at Emburse, story begins. Today, Robert is the Kubernetes expert at Emburse, an expense and invoice management SaaS company.
What happens when a career developer discovers the power of Kubernetes? Robert Kozak, a DevOps Architect for Emburse, has been living that story for the last 3 years. This journey, which is an overwhelming success, has significant forks in the road and requires...
Duration:00:30:27
Feature Flags and Toggle Management Reduce Developer Stress and Increase Productivity
11/29/2022
Code changes are inevitable, but what if deployments could be performed without significant stress to the development team? Feature flags and toggle management make this dream a reality.
In this episode, we speak to Sara Mazer, the Federal CTO of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is the leader in feature flag and toggle management helping federal government customers make changes to code deployments as dictated by public services.
Join us as we discuss:
Feature flag and toggle management...
Duration:00:31:33
Monolithic to Microservices
10/10/2022
Technology modernization requires patience and time. Without appropriate planning, thoughtful deployments, and a measured approach, customer experience can suffer when the inevitable occurs. The goal is to avoid that experience altogether.
Peter Mourfield, Chief Technology Officer at TaxSlayer, LLC, has the answer. Peter’s team has worked to create a system for testing to consistently ensure their applications are seamless both at a security level and a functional level. Because it has to -...
Duration:00:28:40
Innovation Series Part 3 - Viability
9/27/2022
You’ve done the hard work, analyzed the statistics, garnered the support necessary to implement a big vision, and then…
“I really appreciate you pushing the envelope, but… do we even know that this is a problem?”
No worries! You’re prepared, because you have implemented a viable strategy that incorporates a tried and true approach to company wide buy-in.
Kurt Baumberger, EVP, Strategy & Innovation at Shadow-Soft, and Nick chat about bringing that good idea to fruition and out the door in...
Duration:00:33:01
Innovation Series Part 2 - Feasibility
9/20/2022
In order to determine feasibility you need to have the right people at the table. In this episode we discuss selecting the right people for your innovation session and potential pitfalls to avoid.
Most importantly, what should you do about the hippo in the room? Kurt Baumberger, EVP, Strategy & Innovation at Shadow-Soft, is back with the answers in part 2 of this 3-part series in Innovation.
Join us as we discuss:
How to get hundreds of ideas at your next brainstorming...
Duration:00:30:39
Innovation Series Part 1 - Desirability
9/13/2022
The most accurate way to find what you want is to define what you don’t want.
The first step of driving innovation is desirability, according to Kurt Baumberger, EVP, Strategy & Innovation at Shadow Soft. The blueprint to innovation can be achieved leveraging a logical framework for moving fast and delivering a minimum viable product to test in the market.
This is Part 1 of 3 with Kurt discussing how innovation can be developed in your company strategy.
Join us as we discuss:
Using an...
Duration:00:35:27
Custom Automation For Your Business
5/31/2022
Do you remember when George Jetson pushed a button and a salad came out of a box? Believe it or not, that future might be closer than you think.
Born out of demand during the COVID pandemic to automate and digitize food supply, this manufacturing company has created an automated food delivery system that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction film. But it’s not just that it’s as fast as you think it is. Abram Simon, VP of Software Engineering at Hyphen, shares not only how close this...
Duration:00:43:40
Making the Internet More Human
5/24/2022
The emergence of digital spaces augmenting social interactions is taking over the planet. Avatars represent the true identity of the most important contributor to the internet. What happened to learning about the actual human being behind the keyboard or smartphone?
But what if we could make the internet more human? What if it felt like stepping into someone’s front door? Where you see their pictures, their books, their records, and get a good feel for who they are as a HUMAN, not an...
Duration:00:43:13
How Suited Leverages AI to Improve the Hiring Process
5/17/2022
Traditional hiring processes often place a lot of undue emphasis on GPA and alma mater, data points that, generally, aren’t very predictive of future performance.
Aaron Myers, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, and the team at Suited have built a company around a better way to hire—using AI to measure personality traits, experiences, cognitive data, and other metadata so that companies and job candidates find the most suitable match.
Aaron discusses how Suited works, how the company helps...
Duration:00:50:01
Tech Modernization in the Healthcare Space
5/3/2022
Many industries were forced to accelerate their digital transformation plans at the onset of the pandemic—none more so than the healthcare space.
Emily Carlson, Vice President of Technology at Divurgent, shares ho w her company supported large healthcare organizations in making the transition. Plus, she also talks about the steps the industry needs to take to bring more women into technology.
We discuss:
Standing up a Telehealth PBX in 72 hours
Why highly-regulated industries lag behind...
Duration:00:46:41
How Suited Leverages AI to Improve the Hiring Process
5/3/2022
Traditional hiring processes often place a lot of undue emphasis on GPA and alma mater, data points that, generally, aren’t very predictive of future performance.
Aaron Myers, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, and the team at Suited have built a company around a better way to hire—using AI to measure personality traits, experiences, cognitive data, and other metadata so that companies and job candidates find the most suitable match.
Aaron discusses how Suited works, how the company helps...
Duration:00:48:55
Tech Modernization in the Healthcare Space
4/19/2022
Many industries were forced to accelerate their digital transformation plans at the onset of the pandemic—none more so than the healthcare space.
Emily Carlson , Vice President of Technology at Divurgent , shares how her company supported large healthcare organizations in making the transition. Plus, she also talks about the steps the industry needs to take to bring more women into technology.
We discuss:
Want to hear more stories from high growth software companies? Subscribe to...
Duration:00:46:26
How Hazelcast Delivers Real-Time Data Processing
4/4/2022
Hazelcast is a real-time data platform that can run anywhere—from the edge to the data center to the cloud. In other words, it brings the computation to the data rather than moving the data to the computation.
That enables the ability to connect insights to the real-time actions of the customer.
Want to hear more about it?
John DesJardins , Chief Technology Officer, and Mark Santos , Vice President of Worldwide Business Development, join the show to discuss how Hazelcast can accelerate...
Duration:00:53:35
Explained w/ Tony Stafford: Crypto, Metaverse, & Quantum Computing Part 2
3/25/2022
Tony Stafford is a lifelong technologist.
He got his first job in technology in high school. From there, he had stints in the military, government contracting, the Department of Defense, and at our company, Shadow-Soft . Currently, he’s a technology executive working with DOD customers.
It’s that breadth of experience with technology that makes him the perfect person to talk with about technology trends. And that’s exactly what we do in this episode.
We discuss:
The collision between...
Duration:00:28:57
Decision Time w/ Tony Stafford: Effectiveness in an API-Driven Economy Part 1
3/22/2022
Tony Stafford is a lifelong technologist.
He got his first job in technology in high school. From there, he had stints in the military, government contracting, the Department of Defense, and at our company, Shadow-Soft . Currently, he’s a technology executive working with DOD customers.
It’s that breadth of experience with technology that makes him the perfect person to talk with about technology trends. And that’s exactly what we do in this episode.
We discuss:
How cloud is evolving...
Duration:00:23:31
The Benefits of Building Quality Software from the Start
3/10/2022
Today’s guest, Sean Coates, Director of Software Engineering at KUDO, takes pride in doing software engineering the right way.
It’s the reason he became a boss. Before that, he had managers that were perfectly fine with rush jobs and cutting corners to meet a deadline.
Not Sean.
In this episode, he explains why using engineering best practices—design patterns, test-driven deployment, and pair programming, for example—enables you to scale faster and build stronger applications.
We...
Duration:00:29:07
Improving Software Development & Overcoming Modernization Challenges
2/1/2022
Though the platforms have changed, many of the same application challenges still exist. Namely, finding alignment between the people who build the applications and the people who own and operate the platforms.
In this episode, Michael McCormick, Vice President of Technology at Artium, shares his perspective on these age-old challenges and provides advice on how to make modernization projects more effective.
We discuss:
The services offered by Artium
The practice of extreme...
Duration:00:33:43
Improving Software Development & Overcoming Modernization Challenges w/ Michael McCormick
1/13/2022
Though the platforms have changed, many of the same application challenges still exist. Namely, finding alignment between the people who build the applications and the people who own and operate the platforms.
In this episode, Michael McCormick, Vice President of Technology at Artium, shares his perspective on these age-old challenges and provides advice on how to make modernization projects more effective.
We discuss:
The services offered by Artium
The practice of extreme...
Duration:00:25:57