Best DevOps Podcasts (2025)

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How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity 15:20

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Most enterprises today run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single platform, creating significant operational challenges. According to Nutanix CTO Deepak Goel, organizations face three major hurdles: managing operational complexity amid a shortage of cloud-native skills, migrating legacy virtual machine (VM) workloads to m…

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Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs? 29:49

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GPUs dominate today’s AI landscape, but Google argues they are not necessary for every workload. As AI adoption has grown, customers have increasingly demanded compute options that deliver high performance with lower cost and power consumption. Drawing on its long history of custom silicon, Google introduced Axion CPUs in 2024 to meet needs for mas…

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Breaking Data Team Silos Is the Key to Getting AI to Production 30:47

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Enterprises are racing to deploy AI services, but the teams responsible for running them in production are seeing familiar problems reemerge—most notably, silos between data scientists and operations teams, reminiscent of the old DevOps divide. In a discussion recorded at AWS re:Invent 2025, IBM’s Thanos Matzanas and Martin Fuentes argue that the c…

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CHANGELOG - AWS re:Invent & Terraform 1.14 25:17

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Michael Kosir and Rosemary Wang (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) recap AWS re:Invent and discuss Terraform 1.14, including the query CLI command.Podcast Notes:- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/re-invent-2025-how-hashicorp-and-aws-are-simplifying-cloud-operations- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-management-…

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DOP 329: Vibe Coding and The Technical Debt Time Bomb 33:39

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#329: Vibe coding - the practice of casually prompting AI to generate code solutions - has become increasingly popular, but its limitations become apparent when applications need to scale beyond personal use. While AI-assisted development can be powerful for proof of concepts and small internal tools, the transition from vibe-coded solutions to pro…

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Why AI Parallelization Will Be One of the Biggest Challenges of 2026 24:05

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Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, argues that the biggest winners in today’s AI boom resemble the “picks and shovels” sellers of the California Gold Rush: companies that provide tools enabling others to build with AI. Speaking onThe New Stack Makersat AWS re:Invent, Whiteley described the current AI moment as the fastest-moving shift he’s seen in 25 year…

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Jared Parsons: The Latest with C# - Episode 380 42:09

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Jared Parsons is a Developer Manager for the .NET Tools team at Microsoft. He's also done extensive work on the C# Compiler Team. Everybody tuning in probably uses his code on a day-to-day basis! Jared started out at Microsoft over 20 years ago as a Developer; moved on to become a Senior Developer; then Principal Developer on Midori OS; and most re…

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Kubernetes GPU Management Just Got a Major Upgrade 35:26

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Nvidia Distinguished Engineer Kevin Klues noted that low-level systems work is invisible when done well and highly visible when it fails — a dynamic that frames current Kubernetes innovations for AI. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Klues and AWS product manager Jesse Butler discussed two emerging capabilities: dynamic resource alloc…

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The Rise of the Cognitive Architect 22:53

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At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI teams. He envisions developers evolving into “cognitive architects,” responsible for breaking down large, complex problems and distributing work across both AI agents and humans. Complementing this is the…

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DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions 36:39

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#328: The build versus buy decision isn't as binary as most companies think. Every technology choice involves elements of both - you might use Linux (buy) but still configure and customize it extensively (build). The real question isn't whether to build or buy, but finding the right balance between the two approaches based on your company's resourc…

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Why the CNCF's New Executive Director is Obsessed With Inference 25:09

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Jonathan Bryce, the new CNCF executive director, argues that inference—not model training—will define the next decade of computing. Speaking at KubeCon North America 2025, he emphasized that while the industry obsesses over massive LLM training runs, the real opportunity lies in efficiently serving these models at scale. Cloud-native infrastructure…

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Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board 30:40

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmented AI ecosystem. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, the program establishes open, community-driven standards to ensure AI applications run reliably and portably across different …

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Chris Wilke: Generated AI Stories - Episode 379 38:46

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Chris has 25 years experience as a seasoned SaaS and AI product leader known for practical, people-first strategies to harness value from Generative AI for operational excellence. Chris developed the AI Vantage framework—a strategic approach that emphasizes process-driven transformation to unlock immediate and long-term value from GenAI technologie…

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How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain with Deterministic Testing 21:18

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The etcd project — a distributed key-value store older than Kubernetes — recently faced significant challenges due to maintainer turnover and the resulting loss of unwritten institutional knowledge. Lead maintainer Marek Siarkowicz explained that as longtime contributors left, crucial expertise about testing procedures and correctness guarantees di…

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Are we building the right thing? 36:02

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Elise, VP and Head of UX at Unleash, joins us to talk all about UX. Self identifying as probably "The annoying lady in the room" and a career spanning nearly 30 years—starting before "UX" was even a job title — joins us to dismantle the idea that User Experience is just ab…

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Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager? 24:45

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Helm — originally a hackathon project called Kate’s Place — turned 10 in 2025, marking the milestone with the release of Helm 4, its first major update in six years. Created by Matt Butcher and colleagues as a playful take on “K8s,” the early project won a small prize but quickly grew into a serious effort when Deus leadership recognized the need f…

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DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue 33:13

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#327: When AI tools suggest putting glue on pizza, it's a harmless laugh. But when autonomous AI agents start managing your infrastructure, the stakes become much higher. The reality is that current AI technology isn't ready for unsupervised deployment in critical systems, and treating it like it is could lead to catastrophic failures. The challeng…

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All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization 16:13

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Kubernetes has relied on role-based access control (RBAC) since 2017, but its simplicity limits what developers can express, said Micah Hausler, principal engineer at AWS, on The New Stack Makers. RBAC only allows actions; it can’t enforce conditions, denials, or attribute-based rules. Seeking a more expressive authorization model for Kubernetes, H…

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Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible 19:18

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JupyterLite, a fully browser-based distribution of JupyterLab, is enabling new levels of global scalability in technical education. Developed by Sylvain Corlay’s QuantStack team, it allows math and programming lessons to run entirely in students’ browsers — kernel included — without relying on Docker or cloud-scale infrastructure. Its most prominen…

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Alvin Ashcraft: Community Conferences - Episode 378 28:25

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Alvin is a senior content developer at Microsoft, author, and longtime leader in the .NET developer community. With over 27 years of experience in software development, Alvin has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for more than a decade, honored for his contributions to Windows development, Visual Studio, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem. He is …

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2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS 23:16

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AWS’s approach to Elastic Kubernetes Service has evolved significantly since its 2018 launch. According to Mike Stefanik, Senior Manager of Product Management for EKS and ECR, today’s users increasingly represent the late majority—teams that want Kubernetes without managing every component themselves. In a conversation onThe New Stack Makers, Stefa…

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From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going? 44:20

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At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat - explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and …

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DOP 326: Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead 52:13

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#326: Microservices architecture has evolved far beyond simple distributed systems, but most development teams are still rebuilding the same foundational patterns over and over again. Mark Fussell, co-founder of Dapr and Diagrid, explains how his team at Microsoft identified this repetitive reinvention problem and created a solution that abstracts …

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026 54:43

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AWS re:Invent has long featured CTO Werner Vogels’ closing keynote, but this year he signaled it may be his last, emphasizing it’s time for “younger voices” at Amazon. After 21 years with the company, Vogels reflected on arriving as an academic and being stunned by Amazon’s technical scale—an energy that still drives him today. He released his annu…

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Dan Clarke: Personal Productivity - Episode 377 41:31

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Dan Clarke is a seasoned software consultant, Microsoft MVP, and founder of Everstack Ltd. Dan is widely known for his contributions to the .NET ecosystem and hosts the Unhandled Exception Podcast. With a background in DevOps, Azure, and developer tooling, Dan brings a thoughtful, systems-level perspective to software craftsmanship. His work spans …

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How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem? 22:21

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DevOps practitioners — whether developers, operators, SREs or business stakeholders — increasingly rely on telemetry to guide decisions, yet face growing complexity, siloed teams and rising observability costs. In a conversation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, IBM’s Jacob Yackenovich emphasized the importance of collecting high-granulari…

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Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring 32:58

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Warren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of technical debt in modern software engineering. Olga reveals a shocking statistic: without maintenance, cloud-native applications often cease to function within just six months. And …

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DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review 44:28

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#325: KubeCon NA 2025 wrapped in Atlanta with unseasonably cold weather and some significant shifts in the cloud native ecosystem. The conference showed fewer vendors backing CNCF projects on the show floor, with key concerns emerging around maintainer burnout—exemplified by NGINX Ingress being deprecated despite running on 40% of Kubernetes cluste…

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How Kubernetes Became the New Linux 20:28

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Major banks once built their own Linux kernels because no distributions existed, but today commercial distros — and Kubernetes — are universal. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, AWS’s Jesse Butler noted that Kubernetes has reached the same maturity Linux once did: organizations no longer build bespoke control planes but rely on shared stan…

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Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork 27:08

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Clockwork began with a narrow goal—keeping clocks synchronized across servers—but soon realized that its precise latency measurements could reveal deeper data center networking issues. This insight led the company to build a hardware-agnostic monitoring and remediation platform capable of automatically routing around faults. Today, Clockwork’s tech…

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Andrew Lock: Testing Frameworks - Episode 376 32:38

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Andrew Lock is a staff software engineer at Datadog and educator whose contributions to the .NET ecosystem have shaped how developers approach modern web applications. Located in the UK, Andrew is a Microsoft MVP, Author of ASP.NET Core in Action, and has an active blog all about his experience working with .NET and ASP.NET Core. Topics of Discussi…

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Jupyter Deploy: the New Middle Ground between Laptops and Enterprise 22:10

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At JupyterCon 2025, Jupyter Deploy was introduced as an open source command-line tool designed to make cloud-based Jupyter deployments quick and accessible for small teams, educators, and researchers who lack cloud engineering expertise. As described by AWS engineer Jonathan Guinegagne, these users often struggle in an “in-between” space—needing mo…

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From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI 23:26

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In an interview at JupyterCon, Brian Granger — co-creator of Project Jupyter and senior principal technologist at AWS — reflected on Jupyter’s evolution and how AI is redefining open source sustainability. Originally inspired by physics’ modular principles, Granger and co-founder Fernando Pérez designed Jupyter with flexible, extensible components …

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Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas’? 23:14

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Jupyter AI v3 marks a major step forward in integrating intelligent coding assistance directly into JupyterLab. Discussed by AWS engineers David Qiu and Piyush Jain at JupyterCon, the new release introduces AI personas— customizable, specialized assistants that users can configure to perform tasks such as coding help, debugging, or analysis. Unlike…

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DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling with Zesty 48:35

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#324: Kubernetes has reached a mature state where boring releases signal stability rather than stagnation. While the platform continues evolving with features like in-place resource updates in version 1.33, the real challenge lies in optimizing AI workloads that demand significantly more resources than traditional applications. The discussion revea…

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Ben Day: SlideSpeaker.AI - Episode 375 36:11

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Ben Day is a seasoned software consultant and fractional CTO. With over two decades of experience, he brings a blend of hands-on coding expertise, strategic clarity, and people-focused coaching to help companies — from startups to Fortune 500s — deliver high-quality software faster and with less friction. As the founder of Benjamin Day Consulting, …

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CHANGELOG - Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions & Project InfraGraph 27:21

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Michael Kosir and Kerim Satirli (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform and Vault, including Terraform Stacks, Terraform Search, Terraform Actions as well as the future of agentic infrastructure automation with Project Infragraph.Podcast Notes:- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/day-2-infrastructure-manage…

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DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding 42:04

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#323: Vibe coding - the practice of giving AI a high-level description and letting it build applications unsupervised - has become increasingly popular among non-developers looking to quickly prototype ideas. While this approach excels at rapid prototyping and getting small, focused applications running, it creates significant security risks when d…

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Josh Arzt: 23 Years of .NET - Episode 374 43:33

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Josh Arzt is a Senior Solutions Architect with 25+ years of experience modernizing systems, solving complex problems, and delivering scalable cloud solutions. He is an expert in software engineering, DevSecOps, serverless architectures, and cloud migrations. He is a certified professional with a strong publication record in IT and applied mathemati…

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Stop Writing Code, Start Writing Docs 1:03:25

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In this episode of The New Stack Podcast, hosts Alex Williams and Frederic Lardinois spoke with Keith Ballinger, Vice President and General Manager of Google Cloud Platform Developer Experience (GPC), about the evolution of agentic coding tools and the future of programming. Ballinger, a hands-on executive who still codes, discussed Gemini CLI, Goo…

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

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Share Episode Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month. The conversation dives deep into "Agen…

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DOP 322: How to Build Apps That Never Go Down Even When Servers Die 51:33

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#322: Peer-to-peer technology represents a fundamental shift in how we think about data sovereignty and application architecture. Rather than relying on centralized servers and trusting specific endpoints, peer-to-peer systems allow users to verify data authenticity regardless of its source. This approach eliminates the traditional point-to-point c…

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Lee Brownhill: The Data Community - Episode 373 38:41

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Lee Brownhill is a Principal Cloud DBA at Cloud Rede with deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning and automation. With years of experience across Azure and AWS, Lee helps clients optimize their cloud data platforms. His journey began in IT support, quickly evolving into a passion for SQL Server that led him through roles as a Production and…

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Why PyTorch Won 29:43

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At the PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, Luca Antiga — CTO of Lightning AI and head of the PyTorch Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council — discussed the evolution and influence of PyTorch. Originally designed to be “Pythonic” and researcher-friendly Antiga emphasized that PyTorch has remained central across major AI shifts — from early ne…

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DOP 321: Model Context Protocol for Standardizing AI Tool Integration 41:35

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#321: Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a fundamental shift in how AI agents interact with tools and systems. Rather than forcing models to guess the best approach for tasks like creating AWS resources, MCP provides structured context that guides agents toward organization-specific workflows and tools. The protocol serves as an API for agents…

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Aaron Palermo: Cyber Security and Systems Engineering with AI-Driven Development - Episode 372 35:02

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Aaron Palermo is a Senior Solutions Architect, DevOps engineer, and all-around cybersecurity expert. He works for a global cybersecurity services company, Appgate. Aaron was last on the show in episode 196, sharing about Zero Trust Networking. Topics of Discussion: [3:20] Aaron shares his excitement for learning new things and solving innovative ch…

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are har…

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DOP 320: Why Dashboards Alone Are Not Enough for Incident Response 52:24

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#320: In this episode, Darin and Viktor are joined by Jim Hirschauer, Head of Product Marketing at Xurrent, for a deep dive into the realities of incident management in today's complex IT environments. While dashboards and monitoring tools have become ubiquitous in operations centers, the panel discusses why these visualizations alone often fall sh…

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Software Leadership with Jonathan "J." Tower - Episode 371 35:15

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Jonathan Tower is known to friends and colleagues simply as "J." J. is a Microsoft MVP, Telerik Developer Expert, and the founder of Trailhead Technology Partners, a global custom software consultancy. With nearly 25 years of experience in the industry, J. has held roles ranging from senior architect to director of development, and now leads a team…

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Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on Why AI Coding Doesn't Help You Ship Faster 39:23

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Harness co-founder Jyoti Bansal highlights a growing issue in software development: while AI tools help generate more code, they often create bottlenecks further along the pipeline, especially in testing, deployment, and compliance. Since its 2017 launch, Harness has aimed to streamline these stages using AI and machine learning. With the rise of l…