Audio only version of the Cloud Native After Dark (and associated) weekly chat. (Previously called "Cloud Foundry After Dark.")
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I'm Scott W Houghton, 36, DevSecOps architect and multi-cloud expert (AWS/Azure/GCP) in Tampa, Florida. Navy vet, self-taught programmer since 11, flawed Christian finding my way back. For tech professionals, conservatives, veterans, and small business owners who refuse to compromise. EPISODE SERIES: TECH DEEP DIVE (Tuesdays) Enterprise technical content for DevOps engineers and cloud architects. Real implementation from 20+ years experience. FAITH & FREEDOM (Thursdays) Current events throug ...
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Faith & Freedom: After Kirk - Justice Without Revenge
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Send us a text October 14th, 2025: President Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. September 25th: State Department quietly revokes 47 visas for non-citizens who celebrated Kirk's assassination. Justice without revenge - that's the Christian balance we all need to understand. Five weeks after starting this podcas…
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Tech Deep Dive - When the Cloud Goes Dark: Observability After the AWS Outage
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Send us a text Episode 9: When the Cloud Goes Dark - Observability After the AWS Outage Yesterday's AWS outage cost hundreds of billions and took down Snapchat, Coinbase, Ring, even Amazon's own retail site. 15+ hours of chaos exposed a critical truth: most organizations are doing observability completely wrong. THE RECEIPTS: - October 20, 2025, 3:…
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Tech Deep Dive: Platform Engineering - The DevOps Evolution
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Send us a text Platform Engineering isn't just another buzzword—it's the evolution that makes DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices actually scale across entire organizations. In this episode, Scott shares a real story from a scrum call where a simple code formatting mistake became the catalyst for building automated systems that eliminate toil fore…
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Faith & Freedom: Apple vs. the Sabbath - When 'Inclusion' Excludes Faith
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Send us a text Apple vs. the Sabbath: When "Inclusion" Excludes Faith | Faith & Freedom #7 The EEOC just filed a federal lawsuit that exposes Big Tech's double standard: diversity for everything except genuine religious conviction. THE CASE (WITH RECEIPTS): On September 30, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit a…
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Tech Deep Dive: Building Bridges, Not Walls: Multi-Cloud Native Design
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Send us a text Real enterprise multi-cloud architecture from 20+ years in the trenches. AWS, Azure, GCP - when to use each, how to bridge them, and why most organizations fail at multi-cloud. THE RECEIPTS (Sources & Facts): Scott's credentials: Google Cloud PSO, AWS ProServe, consulting with McKinsey, PWC, Deloitte on Fortune 500 transformations AW…
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From the Free State - Tampa's Conservative Awakening
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Send us a text Seven thousand students worshipping Jesus at USF while a UT professor mocks prayer for the President. Three hundred baptisms versus profanity in the classroom. This is the battle for Tampa's soul. After watching Raleigh fall to liberal migration for 12 years, I moved to the Free State of Florida to help build what America can become.…
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Faith & Freedom: Big Tech's Confession - YouTube Censorship Exposed & TikTok's Future
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Send us a text Google admits Biden administration pressured YouTube to censor content that didn't violate policies. In this explosive Faith & Freedom episode, we unpack Google's September 23rd confession to Congress, the shadowbanning of conservative voices, and what the Oracle-led TikTok restructuring means for free speech in tech. Plus, my person…
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Tech Deep Dive: Kubernetes Like a Sailor | Military Precision Meets Container Orchestration
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Send us a text Former Navy Engineman Scott W Houghton transforms a real pirate attack on the USS Ashland into the most memorable Kubernetes lesson you'll ever hear. Drawing from his experience during the April 10, 2010 engagement in the Gulf of Aden, Scott parallels naval operations with container orchestration, making complex DevSecOps concepts cr…
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Faith & Freedom Special: The Muslim Question - Setting the Record Straight
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Send us a text Scott interrupts his regular production schedule to address concerning comments about targeting Muslims following Florida's Operation One Way Ticket. Drawing from his Navy service alongside Muslim allies and presenting hard data on radical Islamic terrorism, he makes the crucial distinction between peaceful Muslims practicing their f…
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Special Episode - Faith & Freedom - From the Free State "Alligator Justice: Florida's Bold Stand for Law and Order"
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Send us a text 🚨 SPECIAL FLORIDA EDITION: From the Free State comes a powerful examination of law, order, and liberty. This week's Central Florida operation detained 354 illegal immigrants in just 4 days, while Florida builds "Alligator Alcatraz" and expands ICE partnerships by 577% since January. Scott Houghton broadcasts from Tampa with hard fact…
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Tech Bites: LLMs Unmasked - The AI Truth Bomb
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Send us a text Scott breaks down Large Language Models (LLMs) in plain English – super-powered autocomplete that's changing everything. Compare Claude Opus 4.1, ChatGPT 5, Grok 4, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot from someone who uses them all professionally. Learn why "AI won't replace people, but people using AI will replace those who don't" applies…
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Tech Deep Dive: "DevSecOps and Discipline"
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Send us a text Tech Deep Dive: DevSecOps and Discipline - Show Notes Where security principles meet spiritual discipline - because the same practices that protect our systems can protect our souls. Scott Houghton (20+ years in tech, contractor for Google Cloud PSO, AWS ProServe, Fortune 500s) breaks down how DevSecOps isn't just about securing infr…
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Send us a text Faith, Freedom & Tech Episode 3: The Charlie Kirk Effect - Show Notes Episode 3: The Charlie Kirk Effect - Gen Z's Return to Traditional Values September 25, 2025 Two weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University, we're witnessing a global youth revolution. From 100,000+ protesters in London chanting "We are Char…
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Send us a text After 20+ years of hiding his faith and conservative values in tech, Scott Houghton is done being silent. In this raw, unfiltered premiere episode of Faith, Freedom & Tech, Scott shares: Why watching Charlie Kirk die for his beliefs changed everything The real cost of being a Christian in Silicon Valley How he went from hacking schoo…
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Conversation about Matt's work at Allstate, the state of the industry, and his upcoming presentation at SpringOne Platform.Podcast Info: https://soundcloud.com/cloudnativeOriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRWqiFaRLYBy Pivotal Software
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Continuous Architecture with Pierre Pureur
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Andrew Shafer talks with Pierre Pureur (@PGP60) about architecting modern enterprise solutions.Original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVTOWMo6fK8By Pivotal Software
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Summary: DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, may the force be with you.Original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gkjH4ZgMUBy Pivotal Software
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