Quest 67 - What happens when Amazon goes down?

Amazon goes down, the QQ Cast geeks out, and by the end you will wish that you had amnesia!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:45 - What happened to Amazon S3 today?
  • 06:40 - How many servers are really designed to be cloud friendly?
  • 15:00 - In light of Cloud Bleed, should you stop using shared services?
  • 26:00 - Are you using Heroku?
  • 34:00 - Why are message queues so important?
  • 46:20 - Can dependency injection make debugging easier?
  • 59:45 - Has the tech community aligned around cloud technology?
  • 67:10 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 66 - What's in your Steam library?

In search of happy topics, the QQ Cast reminisce about the games in their Steam library...wait, when did I buy THAT???

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:45 - Where do you see your stats on Steam?
  • 09:30 - Who doesn't have Age of Empires installed?
  • 14:00 - Is Cities Skylines the new SimCity?
  • 25:00 - When did development stop for Fistful of Frags?
  • 32:30 - Has anyone heard of Hoard?
  • 37:30 - How many hours have we put into Left 4 Dead?
  • 48:15 - Did Pillars of Eternity revive CRPGs?
  • 55:45 - Get out of here, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
  • 65:30 - Why did Tom buy so many Warhammer games?
  • 73:00 - What do we want to go back and play?
  • 74:00 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 65 - Why didn't we talk about the N64?

The QQ Cast corrects their mistake of not talking about the N64 during quest 64...the podcast number, not the game!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:55 - How hyped was the N64 launch?
  • 12:30 - What were our favorite N64 games?
  • 22:45 - How many friendships did Mario Party destroy?
  • 33:15 - Was Mario 64 the first "let's play" game?
  • 48:30 - Which N64 Zelda game was the best?
  • 59:15 - Did Smash Brothers create a new genre?
  • 65:50 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 64 - What is the state of Voice UX in 2017?

Warning! This podcast is geeky. Really really geeky. If you listen to this while driving, you may fall asleep at the wheel. You have been warned!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:30 - Can you survive without a phone in the 21st century?
  • 14:00 - Are voice commands more than just an interface?
  • 29:00 - Is "Idiocracy level" dependency on these technologies a bad thing?
  • 37:00 - For your average consumer, how useful is all this voice stuff?
  • 50:10 - Can you subpoena an AI to come to court?
  • 60:30 - Wrap up!

Music

QQ Review - Star Wars Rogue One

Bothans die, Vader gets angry, and we QQ about Disney's Episode 3.8 HD Prequel, a Marvel Story!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:40 - What preconceptions did we have?
  • 05:00 - What surprised us the most?
  • 09:20 - What was good?
  • 31:10 - What was bad?
  • 48:50 - The verdict!
  • 53:50 - Wrap up

Music