Best Cncf Podcasts (2025)

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The double-edged sword of big initial customers with Taco Potze 39:12

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4h ago39:12

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This week I’m back from vacation and I have a new episode of The Business of Open Source, with Taco Potze! Taco is the co-founder and CEO of Open Social. A couple interesting takeaways from our conversation: When you’re transitioning from a services company to a product company, it’s much easier if the product you work on is connected to the servic…

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Next.js is infuriating (News) 8:14

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Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get clo…

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ClickStack: ClickHouse’s New Observability Stack Unveiled - OpenObservability Talks S6E03 59:11

3d ago59:11

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The ClickHouse open source project has gained interest in the observability community, thanks to its outstanding performance benchmarks. Now ClickHouse is doubling down on observability with the release of ClickStack, a new open source observability stack that bundles in ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry and HyperDX frontend. I invited Mike Shi, the co-fou…

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Action absorbs anxiety (Friends) 1:22:54

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Arun Gupta, now a “free agent” after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he’s dealing with his first job hunt since the 1990s. Along the way, we talk about agentic coding strategies, what GPT-5’s release implies about the future, and more. (US buys 10% of Intel)++ Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at t…

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Episode 535: Don’t put randomness in your workflow 51:24

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This week, we discuss AI disillusionment, the good and bad of AI use cases, and VMware news. Plus, we compare tech mergers to Taylor Swift’s engagement. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534 Runner-up Titles I’m going to turn off the Roomba Spider Patrol My old office had a door The dog was up all night Exiting our bubble The child’s name…

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Python documentary companion pod (Interview) 1:54:19

6d ago1:54:19

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant –creator of NumPy, SciPy, and more– to get his perspective on how Python took over the software world. Stick around for the twist ending! We set aside Python and dissect Travis’ big idea to make open source projects f…

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Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav 30:51

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Kubernetes 1.34 (Of Wind & Will) W/ Vyom Yadav Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us …

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Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever? (News) 7:41

8d ago7:41

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Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer’s block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don’t scale, t…

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Git with your friends (remastered) (Friends) 1:47:23

11d ago1:47:23

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Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussion …

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Episode 534: Capitalism is working 1:22:22

11d ago1:22:22

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This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 534 Runner-up Titles It’s all in your head Little brother podcasting Chaos Monkey Inspections “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now…

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From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) (Interview) 2:22:30

12d ago2:22:30

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The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up…

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LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw 52:30

13d ago52:30

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Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the …

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Cursor’s problem isn't just Cursor's problem (News) 7:37

15d ago7:37

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Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline AI workspace, OverType is a WYSIWYG markdown editor that’s just a textarea, and sshrc lets you bring your config with you to remote machines. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and m…

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Oxide is crossing the chasm (Friends) 1:39:58

18d ago1:39:58

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Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of Oxide Computer Company’s $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he’s avoiding an appearance on Silicon Valley (ding), why their uniform compensation is working, where Oxide fits in the AI datacenter, what scaling to 50+ rack orders looks like, and more. (GitHub has no CEO and saving Intel)++ Join the discussion Cha…

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Episode 533: It’s a Type 2 Kolache 1:06:52

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This week, we discuss GPT 5.0, the emerging AI ecosystem, and why TAM is basically a bedtime story for investors. Plus, Coté serves up a masterclass on kolaches. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 533 Runner-up Titles Yeehaw Buns Bush Turkey Pigs in Blanket The Czech Stop "The Central Texas Kolache Corridor" “I’m over here in Gemini-land.”…

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Biocomputing on human neurons (Interview) 57:21

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Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next evolutionary leap for AI and neuron-powered computing. It’s a brave new world, just 10 years in the making. We discuss lab-grown human brain organoids connected to electrodes, the possibility to solve AI’s massive energy consumption challenge, post-…

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30: Building AiKA: Spotify’s AI Knowledge Assistant 38:38

20d ago38:38

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Hear about the journey behind building Spotify’s AI knowledge assistant, aka AiKA — from hack projects to internal chatbot, to enterprise developer tool. While general purpose chatbots are being used everywhere, they often fall short when it comes to navigating company-specific information — like which internal policy applies to your team or where …

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MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Dr. Aaron N. Cutshall of SQLRV, LLC 12:28

22d ago12:28

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Welcome to Episode 3 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake sits down with Dr. Aaron N. Cutshall, Principal Data Architect at SQLRV, LLC., to discuss the power and performance benefits of set-based processing in relational databases like PostgreSQL.With database experience dating back to the 1980s, Aar…

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Open source regrets (News) 9:29

22d ago9:29

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Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 mi…

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Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends) 1:11:35

25d ago1:11:35

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Gerhard calls Kaizen 20, ‘The One Where We Meet’. Rightfully so. It’s also the one where we eat, hike, chat, and launch Pipely live on stage with friends. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Auth0 – The identity infrastructure for the age of AI. Built by d…

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Episode 532: Less Goofy. More Enterprise. 1:06:44

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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, what’s driving valuations, and why AWS says it’s still early innings for cloud. Plus, Coté does a deep dive on Shipley Donuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 532 Runner-up Titles Dangerous to do things in bed Free Donut Holes Dark Fiber BET A man can not believe anything that devalues their index f…

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Platform Engineering, with Ben Good 34:15

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This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast. Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com N…

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LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interview) 1:15:26

27d ago1:15:26

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We’re LIVE at the historic Oriental Theater in Denver, CO with Nora Jones. Nora is the founder of Jeli.io, recently acquired by PagerDuty and she’s been shaping the way we think about reliability, incident response, and human-centered engineering for years. We get into the real story behind the deal. Not just the headline, but what it’s like sellin…

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MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Victor Olex of SlashDB 10:25

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Welcome to Episode 2 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Victor Olex, Founder and CEO of SlashDB — a platform that instantly turns databases into RESTful APIs with support for JSON, XML, CSV, and even a full HTML-based UI for exploring and querying data.They explore how SlashDB stands out…

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The smell of vibe coding (News) 7:33

29d ago7:33

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Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels. V…

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SO much to dig into (Friends) 1:23:48

1M ago1:23:48

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Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because t…

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Episode 531: YAYAML 59:05

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This week, we discuss the AI hype cycle, Astronomer’s viral moment, and yet another YAML flavor — KYAML. Plus, private equity is coming for your donuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 531 Runner-up Titles Sometimes it’s hard to make money I’ve given into Big Donut Maybe you can fake your way through life At some point you have to have …

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Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview) 2:02:37

1M ago2:02:37

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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this ep…

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Highlights from CNCF’s First Open Observability Summit - OpenObservability Talks S6E02 1:07:03

1M ago1:07:03

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We are overdue for a vendor neutral industry wide event dedicated to our favorite topic - open observability. Last month (June 2025) the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ran the first-ever Open Observability Summit, bringing together the world’s best experts in the field in a day packed with talks from project maintainers, end users and pra…

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (News) 7:48

1M ago7:48

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Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file server, Ernie Smith honors the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary, Anthropic shares how their teams use Claude Code, and Drew Lyton tells why he believes the future is NOT self-hosted. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support ou…

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#define: props to astronomer (Friends) 1:06:10

1M ago1:06:10

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Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we’re joined by three Changelog++ members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 14 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join…

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Platform Engineering, GitOps and AI with Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu 21:10

1M ago21:10

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Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@go…

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Episode 530: His proper name is Sasquatch 47:37

1M ago47:37

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This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 530 Runner-up Titles VP of getting it on Neutral trombone Good Margin Independent from what? The New Benevolence I have plenty of cynicism for other things Rundown …

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Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview) 1:15:14

1M ago1:15:14

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Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale. Join the discussion Changelog++ membe…

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MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Tushar Pednekar 11:21

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Welcome to Episode 1 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Tushar Pednekar, Co-founder of Synx Data Labs, about Apache CloudBerry — a new open source, Postgres-based analytics platform designed to scale from terabytes to petabytes.They explore how CloudBerry offers a true open-source altern…

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Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News) 6:47

1M ago6:47

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Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people. View the newslette…

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Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends) 1:31:46

2M ago1:31:46

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Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 13 minutes at the end of thi…

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Episode 529: Windsurf, AI Agents, and Kiro 47:03

2M ago47:03

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This week, we discuss Windsurf being acquired (again), how much AI agents really help with coding, and AWS launching Kiro. Plus, Matt attempts to design a new closet. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 529 Runner-up Titles "The backlog will always be with you." The things I dream about… Closet debt It’s about the money They call it busines…

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Pivoting to Retool (Interview) 1:21:57

2M ago1:21:57

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David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on thi…