Best Devops Training Podcasts (2025)

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From DevOps ‘Heart Attacks’ to AI-Powered Diagnostics With Traversal’s AI Agents 40:32

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Anish Agarwal and Raj Agrawal, co-founders of Traversal, are transforming how enterprises handle critical system failures. Their AI agents can perform root cause analysis in 2-4 minutes instead of the hours typically spent by teams of engineers scrambling in Slack channels. Drawing from their academic research in causal inference and gene regulator…

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DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli on AI's Scientific Revolution 41:13

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Pushmeet Kohli leads AI for Science at DeepMind, where his team has created AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers entirely new algorithms and proves mathematical results that have eluded researchers for decades. From improving 50-year-old matrix multiplication algorithms to generating interpretable code for complex problems like data center sche…

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MITRE ATLAS Framework - Securing AI Systems 17:27

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Welcome to a crucial episode where we delve into the MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) Framework, an exhaustive knowledge base designed to secure our increasingly AI-dependent world. As AI and machine learning become foundational across healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity, protecting these systems fro…

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Distilling Transformers and Diffusion Models for Robust Edge Use Cases with Fatih Porikli - #738 1:00:29

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Today, we're joined by Fatih Porikli, senior director of technology at Qualcomm AI Research for an in-depth look at several of Qualcomm's accepted papers and demos featured at this year’s CVPR conference. We start with “DiMA: Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving,” an end-to-end autonomous driving system that incorpora…

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Mapping the Mind of a Neural Net: Goodfire’s Eric Ho on the Future of Interpretability 47:07

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Eric Ho is building Goodfire to solve one of AI’s most critical challenges: understanding what’s actually happening inside neural networks. His team is developing techniques to understand, audit and edit neural networks at the feature level. Eric discusses breakthrough results in resolving superposition through sparse autoencoders, successful model…

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ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski: Why Voice Will Be the Fundamental Interface for Tech 59:53

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Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, explains how staying laser-focused on audio innovation has allowed his company to thrive despite the push into multimodality from foundation models. From a high school friendship in Poland to building one of the fastest-growing AI companies, Mati shares how ElevenLabs transformed text-to-speech w…

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Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? 1:06:35

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Episode Sponsor: PagerDuty - Checkout the features in their official feature release: https://fnf.dev/4dYQ7gL This episode dives into a fundamental question facing the DevOps world: Did Kubernetes truly win the infrastructure race because it was the best technology, or were there other, perhaps less obvious, factors at play? Omer Hamerman joins Wil…

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Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey - #737 56:13

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Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, pr…

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Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight 1:17:55

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In this episode, Aimee Knight, an expert in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) whose experience hails from Paramount and NPM, joins the podcast to discuss her journey into SRE, the challenges she faced, and the strategies she employed to succeed. Aimee shares her transition from a non-traditional background in JavaScript development to SRE, highlig…

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Best AI Security Books in 2025 12:53

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Are you ready to face the escalating threat of AI attacks? AI system attacks are hitting companies every single day. Hackers use AI tools to break into major banks and steal millions. It's a critical time for anyone in tech or cybersecurity to understand how to fight back. In this episode, we delve into why AI security is more crucial than ever in …

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Threat Modeling for Medtech Industry 5:28

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Join us for an insightful episode as we delve into the critical realm of product security within the Medtech industry. The digital revolution is transforming patient care, but it also introduces significant security risks to medical devices. We'll explore the complex security environment where devices like pacemakers and diagnostic systems are incr…

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LLMs for Equities Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma with Ben Wellington - #736 59:31

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Today, we're joined by Ben Wellington, deputy head of feature forecasting at Two Sigma. We dig into the team’s end-to-end approach to leveraging AI in equities feature forecasting, covering how they identify and create features, collect and quantify historical data, and build predictive models to forecast market behavior and asset prices for tradin…

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The Breakthroughs Needed for AGI Have Already Been Made: OpenAI Former Research Head Bob McGrew 48:51

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As OpenAI's former Head of Research, Bob McGrew witnessed the company's evolution from GPT-3’s breakthrough to today's reasoning models. He argues that there are three legs of the stool for AGI—Transformers, scaled pre-training, and reasoning—and that the fundamentals that will shape the next decade-plus are already in place. He thinks 2025 will be…

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Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig 1:04:57

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of MCP (Machine Control Protocol) servers and their role in enabling agent interactions. Gil Feig, the co-founder and CTO of Merge, shares insights on how MCP servers facilitate efficient and secure integration between various services and APIs. The discussion covers the benefits and challenges of using MC…

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AI Security Frameworks for Enterprises 5:33

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Welcome to "Securing the Future," the podcast dedicated to navigating the complex world of AI security. In this episode, we unpack the vital role of AI security frameworks—acting as instruction manuals—in safeguarding AI systems for multinational corporations. These frameworks provide uniform guidelines for implementing security measures across div…

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Zero-Shot Auto-Labeling: The End of Annotation for Computer Vision with Jason Corso - #735 56:45

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Today, we're joined by Jason Corso, co-founder of Voxel51 and professor at the University of Michigan, to explore automated labeling in computer vision. Jason introduces FiftyOne, an open-source platform for visualizing datasets, analyzing models, and improving data quality. We focus on Voxel51’s recent research report, “Zero-shot auto-labeling riv…

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OpenAI Codex Team: From Coding Autocomplete to Asynchronous Autonomous Agents 37:44

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Hanson Wang and Alexander Embiricos from OpenAI's Codex team discuss their latest AI coding agent that works independently in its own environment for up to 30 minutes, generating full pull requests from simple task descriptions. They explain how they trained the model beyond competitive programming to match real-world software engineering needs, th…

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No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding 1:00:38

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Warren talks with Nathan Goulding, SVP of Engineering at Vultr, about what it actually takes to run a high-performance cloud platform. They cover everything from global game server latency and hybrid models to bare metal provisioning and the power/cooling constraints that come with modern GPU clusters. The discussion gets into real-world deployment…

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Grokking, Generalization Collapse, and the Dynamics of Training Deep Neural Networks with Charles Martin - #734 1:25:21

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Today, we're joined by Charles Martin, founder of Calculation Consulting, to discuss Weight Watcher, an open-source tool for analyzing and improving Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based on principles from theoretical physics. We explore the foundations of the Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR) theory that underpins it, which combines random matri…

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Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela 52:45

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Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO and founder of Illumex, joins the crew to break down what it really means to make your data “AI-ready.” This isn’t just about clean tables—it’s about semantic fabric, business ontologies, and grounding agents in your company's context to prevent the dreaded LLM hallucination. We dive into how modern enterprises just cannot bu…

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Google I/O Afterparty: The Future of Human-AI Collaboration, From Veo to Mariner 53:51

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Fresh off impressive releases at Google’s I/O event, three Google Labs leaders explain how they’re reimagining creative tools and productivity workflows. Thomas Iljic details how video generation is merging filmmaking with gaming through generative AI cameras and world-building interfaces in Whisk and Veo. Jaclyn Konzelmann demonstrates how Project…

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Global Banks Slash Security Costs 5X with Threat Model Training 11:42

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Discover how a global financial institution transformed its security posture and achieved massive cost savings through targeted threat modeling training. Facing challenges like inconsistent practices, difficulty scaling training across 50 countries, and keeping pace with evolving threats, this bank needed a new approach beyond infrequent, in-person…

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Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System - DevOps 242 1:10:05

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Sylvain Kalache, Head of Developer Relations at Rootly joins us to explore the new frontier of incident response powered by large language models. We dive into the evolution of DevRel and how we meet the new challenges impacting our systems. We explore Sylvain's origin story in self-healing systems, dating back to his SlideShare and LinkedIn days. …

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Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - #733 26:21

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Today, I’m excited to share a special crossover edition of the podcast recorded live from Google I/O 2025! In this episode, I join Shawn Wang aka Swyx from the Latent Space Podcast, to interview Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick, PMs at Google DeepMind working on AI Studio and the Gemini API, along with Kwindla Kramer, CEO of Daily and cre…

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From Data Centers to Dyson Spheres: P-1 AI's Path to Hardware Engineering AGI 38:25

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Former Airbus CTO Paul Eremenko shares his vision for bringing AI to physical engineering, starting with Archie—an AI agent that works alongside human engineers. P-1 AI is tackling the challenge of generating synthetic training data to teach AI systems about complex physical systems, from data center cooling to aircraft design and beyond. Eremenko …

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How a System Administrator Transformed into a Certified DevSecOps Engineer in 3 Months 14:00

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Welcome to the show! Today, we share an inspiring story of career transformation. We're talking to Kelly, who went from being a traditional system administrator focused on managing legacy systems to becoming a Certified DevSecOps Engineer. However, a major security incident – a vulnerable container image making it into production despite perimeter …

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Decentralized Chaos: Web3 Infra, NodeOps, and the Art of Blockchain Load Balancing - DevOps 241 1:16:25

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This week, Paul Marston from Ankr joins the crew to unpack the madness that is modern blockchain infrastructure. From his wild career transition out of financial services into 24/7 node ops for Web3, Paul shares the brutal truth about uptime expectations, decentralization challenges, and why hard forks are more like enterprise schema upgrades with …

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RAG Risks: Why Retrieval-Augmented LLMs are Not Safer with Sebastian Gehrmann - #732 57:09

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Today, we're joined by Sebastian Gehrmann, head of responsible AI in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, to discuss AI safety in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and generative AI in high-stakes domains like financial services. We explore how RAG, contrary to some expectations, can inadvertently degrade model safety. We cover examples o…

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Gong’s Amit Bendov: From Meeting Recordings to Revenue AI 42:05

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CEO Amit Bendov shares how Gong evolved from a meeting transcription tool to an AI-powered revenue platform that's increasing sales capacity by up to 60%. He explains why task-specific AI agents are the key to enterprise adoption, and why human accountability will remain crucial even as AI takes over routine sales tasks. Amit also reveals how Gong …

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Best DevSecOps Roadmap and Certifications in 2025 13:38

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Are you a DevOps professional, Software Engineer, or Security Engineer looking to level up your skills in 2025? Ever wondered how top tech companies ship new features fast while keeping their apps super-safe? It's all about DevSecOps – where security meets speed! This episode dives into the DevSecOps roadmap, your guide to success for building fast…

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LIVE: Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI 30:59

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At AI Ascent 2025, Jeff Dean makes bold predictions. Discover how the pioneer behind Google's TPUs and foundational AI research sees the technology evolving, from specialized hardware to more organic systems, and future engineering capabilities.By Sequoia Capital

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Observability in the CI/CD Pipeline with Adriana Villela - DevOps 240 1:21:08

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In this episode, Will and Warren welcome Adriana Villela — CNCF ambassador, Dynatrace advocate, and host of the Geeking Out podcast — for a wide-ranging conversation on observability in CI/CD pipelines. Adriana shares her journey from “On Call Me Maybe” to her own podcast, her work with OpenTelemetry, and why observability isn’t just for SREs anymo…

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LIVE: Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox ft. Harrison Chase of LangChain 8:28

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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase introduces the concept of ambient agents, AI systems that operate continuously in the background responding to events rather than direct human prompts. Learn how these agents differ from traditional chatbots, why human oversight remains essential and how this approach could dra…

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LIVE: How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra 34:30

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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor discusses why AI is driving a fundamental shift from subscription-based pricing to outcomes-based models. Learn why this transition is harder for incumbents than startups, why applied AI and vertical specialization represent the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs and how …

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LIVE: Sam Altman of OpenAI on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life 32:27

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Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sam reflects on OpenAI’s evolution from a 14-person research lab to a dominant AI platform. He envisions transforming ChatGPT into a deeply personal AI service that remembers your entire life's context—from conversations to emails—while working seamlessly across all services. Sam describes the generation g…

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From Prompts to Policies: How RL Builds Better AI Agents with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy - #731 1:01:25

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Today, we're joined by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Labs, to discuss how reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping the way we build custom agents on top of foundation models. Mahesh highlights the crucial role of data curation, evaluation, and error analysis in model performance, and explains why RL offers a more robust altern…

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Become an AI Security Engineer in 8 Weeks - Fast-Track Guide 13:43

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Explore the critical and rapidly evolving field of AI security in 2025 and beyond. With AI now used in 40% of cyberattacks and 93% of companies facing these smart threats daily, the demand for skilled professionals to defend against them is soaring. This episode dives into the essential role of the AI Security Engineer, a vital position that combin…

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Building Engineering Excellence with Ganesh Datta of Cortex - DevOps 239 51:01

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In this episode, I (flying solo today!) sat down with Ganesh Datta, the CTO and co-founder of Cortex, to explore what it really means to drive engineering excellence at scale. And spoiler: it’s not just about better dashboards or fancy developer tools—it’s about treating software development like the competitive advantage it is. We went deep into t…

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How OpenAI Builds AI Agents That Think and Act with Josh Tobin - #730 1:07:27

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Today, we're joined by Josh Tobin, member of technical staff at OpenAI, to discuss the company’s approach to building AI agents. We cover OpenAI's three agentic offerings—Deep Research for comprehensive web research, Operator for website navigation, and Codex CLI for local code execution. We explore OpenAI’s shift from simple LLM workflows to reaso…

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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach: Building the System of Record for the AI Era 47:49

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Workday CEO and Sequoia partner Carl Eschenbach explains how the company is evolving its platform to handle both human and AI workers. He shares Workday’s three-pronged approach to monetizing AI through seat-based pricing, role-based agents and consumption-based API access. Eschenbach discusses why domain-specific agents with curated data will be m…

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Modern DevOps Challenges: Automation, AI, and Scaling in 2025 - DevOps 238 1:18:49

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In this episode of DevOps 238, we sat down with Zach Lloyd to dive into what’s really happening in the world of modern DevOps—from automation and AI to scaling systems and maintaining team culture in fast-paced environments. We talked about the evolving role of DevOps engineers, the shift toward platform engineering, and why tool sprawl is becoming…