Best Jetbrains Podcasts (2025)

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Testing Methodology for the Cloud | Meryem Zid 32:16

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, QA engineer Meryem Zid shares her insights on building effective QA pipelines, emphasizing unit tests and end-to-end testing as essentials for software quality. She discusses using tools like LocalStack and Terraform for cloud testing and explores emerging trends like chaos engineering, advanc…

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Data Handling in Manufacturing | Jeremy Theocharis 34:20

9M ago34:20

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, Jeremy Theocharis, co-founder and CTO of Unite Manufacturing Hub (UMH), joins us to discuss digital transformation in manufacturing. Jeremy delves into how UMH centralizes factory data, enhancing real-time monitoring and data accessibility with a new data layer for the manufacturing process. H…

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JetBrains: Developer Tools for the Cloud Age | Hadi Hariri 31:40

9M ago31:40

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, Hadi Hariri, the head of open source projects at JetBrains, joins us to discuss the evolution of programming languages and developer tools. Hadi shares insights on JetBrains’ diverse suite of IDEs, including the recently launched Rust Rover, and explores how the company has integrated AI tools…

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Streaming Databases are not the same as a Streaming Processor 35:35

9M ago35:35

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, Yingjun Wu, founder of RisingWave Labs, discusses stream processing and how RisingWave enables real-time data analytics. He explains the differences between batch and streaming databases, RisingWave’s PostgreSQL compatibility, and its open-source focus. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris …

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WordPress dumpster fire, open-source maintainers overworked, and cloud providers go nuclear! 1:00:55

9M ago1:00:55

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WordPress continues to burn in a dumpster of their own making as WP Engines' lawsuit moves forward. Unfortunately, it's not just two corporate toddlers squabbling in an isolated sandpit. It has implications for the rest of the WordPress ecosystem and beyond into open-source. With open-source maintainers already overworked and going gray, the rush o…

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Stay relevant in the Dev Career: Enhance your Profile and Reputation 40:10

9M ago40:10

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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Java evangelist Bruno Souza shares insights on adapting to cloud and AI trends, navigating the hidden job market, and building career visibility. He emphasizes hands-on learning and applying new technologies in real projects. Souza also introduces his Mentorship Hub, aimed at helping developers advance their career…

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Observability with OpenTelemetry and Dash0 | Michele Mancioppi 30:22

9M ago30:22

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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Michele Mancioppi, Head of Product at Dash0, discusses how Dash0 enhances Kubernetes-native observability using OpenTelemetry. He and Chris Engelbert explore the importance of context in telemetry data and how standardization simplifies observability. Mancioppi also touches on balancing product management with tech…

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Event Streaming Beyond Kafka | Christina Lin 29:16

10M ago29:16

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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Christina Lin from Redpanda Data discusses how Redpanda simplifies data streaming as an alternative to Kafka. She and Chris Engelbert explore its ease of use, cloud compatibility, and innovations like the BYOC service as a seamless Kafka alternative. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Christina discuss: Wh…

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Recall says "I'll be back" but can't be removed, Toyota leaks GPS data and Mono moves to Wine 1:00:05

10M ago1:00:05

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Windows Recall makes a return in October. If you don't want it then, tough, because you can't remove it! Toyota isn't having a good time as more data leaks, this time from a third party. But this time car GPS data is grabbed too. And finally, some good news in the open-source world, Mono moves under the stewardship of the Wine project. Join Chocola…

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A Brief History of Simplyblock | Michael Schmidt 30:10

10M ago30:10

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In this episode of Cloud Commute, Michael Schmidt, co-founder & CTO of simplyblock, joins us to discuss the innovation behind simplyblock. Michael shares his journey from consulting and leading major retail IT operations to the creation of simplyblock. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Michael discuss: What is software-defined storage? Wh…

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Timeplus: Streaming Analytics for Realtime Data | Jove Zhong 29:40

10M ago29:40

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Event-driven processing and real-time stream analytics are common design elements of modern, scalable architectures. Jove Zhong from Timeplus talks about how and why you want to use these architectural patterns and why Timeplus. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Jove discuss: What is Streaming Analytics? Why do people prefer Timeplus? Wha…

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Integration Tests Done Right: Testcontainers | Oleg Šelajev 30:46

10M ago30:46

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Writing good integration tests is hard. Databases and other services need to be started up, the test has to be run, and everything needs to be shut down again. In this episode of Cloud Commute Oleg Šelajev from Docker talks about how Testcontainers makes our lives better. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Oleg discuss: Test containers and…

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From Teaching to Tech: The Forefront of the Kubernetes Community - Bart Farrell 27:51

11M ago27:51

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In this very special episode of Cloud Commute we try something else. Joined by guest Bart Farrell, well known in the Kubernetes ecosystem for his work in the Data on Kubernetes community, as well as Kube.FM. Bart talks about his past, teaching children English after he moved from the USA to Spain, and how this shaped his view on teaching tech topic…

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Building AI Agents with Java and Semantic Kernel 30:18

11M ago30:18

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, Bruno Borges, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, discusses millions of Java instances at Microsoft and the role of the Microsoft Java team. He introduces Semantic Kernel, a Java library for integrating AI into business applications, using large language models. Tune in to learn how Micros…

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X using your data, again, Microsoft under fire, again, CrowdStrike has a sense of humour, maybe. 1:00:35

11M ago1:00:35

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Meta and X are using your data again for their own ends. The global presence of Microsoft is being seen as a potential disadvantage in light of the CrowdStrike debacle, while it points to the EU as the reason it can't lock down the kernel. And CrowdStrike accepts an award at Black Hat but loses its sense of humour for ClownStrike. Join Chocolatey S…

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How to Build a Serverless Postgres? ft Gwen Shapira 28:36

11M ago28:36

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In this episode, our guest Gwen Shapira talks about her co-founded database startup Nile, a serverless Postgres database. She explains how they implemented the multi-tenant features, made sure that customers are probably isolated, how scalability works, and what the future holds. Gwen has years and years of experience using technologies as Oracle d…

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A Time-Series Database in Postgres - WHY? 29:22

11M ago29:22

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In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, host Chris Engelbert talks with Mike Freedman, co-founder and CTO of Timescale. Timescale enhances Postgres for handling time series data, analytics, and AI efficiently. The discussion covers Timescale's use of Kubernetes for scalable, decoupled compute and storage, ensuring high availability …

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Introduction to Side Channel Attacks using CacheWarp 31:43

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In this week's episode we have a very special guest, Michael Schwarz from CISPA. A security researcher specialized in CPU side-channel attacks. He explains how side-channel attacks work in general, but most specifically with the example of his team's most recent find: #CacheWarp. He was also involved in the finding of #Meltdown and #Spectre. In thi…

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Automatically secure your application with your personal Application Firewall 25:21

12M ago25:21

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In this week's episode of the Cloud Commute podcast by simplyblock, host Chris Engelbert talks to Hannes Ullman from bifrost security, a company building an automatic application firewall. Bifrost is built upon AppArmor, using a training phase to learn the application's network behavior, necessary system calls, and more. Using the data acquired dur…

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Firefox data collection hot water, Windows 11 gets worse and Polyfill CDN malwares all the things! 1:06:48

12M ago1:06:48

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Firefox gets into hot water with its latest 'prototype' that collects data without consent. Windows 11 gets more ads and helpfully uploads your data to OneDrive and Polyfill. What is there to say about that? So much, it turns out. Join Chocolatey Software's James Ruskin, Josh King and Paul Broadwith as we go through the latest tech and security new…

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How to connect millions of devices every day 29:04

12M ago29:04

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In this episode of the Cloud Commute Podcast, Chris Engelbert talks with Dominik Obermaier, CTO and co-founder of HiveMQ. They delve into the technical aspects of MQTT, a lightweight communication protocol designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), and much more. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Dominik discuss: Introduction to HiveMQ an…

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Getting Started with Graph Databases with Jennifer Reif from Neo4j 26:43

1y ago26:43

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In this week's episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert sits down with Jennifer Reif, a developer advocate at Neo4j. Jennifer dives into the fascinating world of graph databases, explaining how Neo4j stores data as entities and relationships, making it perfect for complex queries involving networks, social structures, su…

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End-to-end testing of mobile and web-applications with Paloma Oliveira from Saucelabs 26:45

1y ago26:45

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In this week's episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Paloma Oliveira, a Brazilian growth engineer at Sauce Labs and active member of the Python Software Verband and PyLadies Berlin. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Paloma discuss: The role of Sauce Labs in end-to-end testing for software and device…

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Machine Learning driven Database Optimization with Luigi Nardi from DBtune 25:57

1y ago25:57

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In this week's episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DBtune. Luigi provides insights into the complexities of database optimization and the significant role of machine learning in improving system efficiency. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Luigi discuss: Introduc…

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Latest Broadcom-VMware saga, and Microsoft recalls Recall defaults and server installed CoPilot app 1:09:03

1y ago1:09:03

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Find out what the latest is in the Broadcom-VMware saga as AWS is the next target and why Microsoft is recalling the Recall defaults. Remember the CoPilot app silently installed on your Windows Servers? We talk about that too. All this and Paul trying so very hard to stay composed. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Steph…

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How I designed PostgreSQL High Availability with Shaun Thomas from Tembo 28:31

1y ago28:31

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Welcome to this week's episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast! Host Chris Engelbert sits down with Shaun Thomas, affectionately known as "Mr. High Availability" in the Postgres community, to discuss his journey from a standard DBA to a leading expert in high availability solutions for Postgres databases. In this episode of Cloud Commute, Ch…

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Simplify Developer Namespaces with Multi-tenant Kubernetes with Alessandro Vozza from Kubespaces 25:21

1y ago25:21

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In this episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Alessandro Vozza, a prominent figure in the Kubernetes and cloud-native community. Alessandro shares his journey from his early days in open-source advocacy to his pivotal role in organizing the DevOps and Kubernetes meetups in Amsterdam. In this episode of Cloud …

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Access Policy Management at Cloud-Scale with Anders Eknert from Styra 24:54

1y ago24:54

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The podcast episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute features Chris Engelbert interviewing Anders Eknert. They discuss Anders' background and current role at Styra, the company behind the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. Anders lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, and has been involved with Styra for about three and a half years. He shares how his p…

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Your CI/CD Pipeline is a Production system with Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane 28:59

1y ago28:59

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Using CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy your applications is common sense. Many use combined tools though. Stefan Prodan, from ControlPlane, talks about the importance of recognizing that a deployment pipeline is basically a cluster admin and needs to be handled securely as a production system. If you have questions to Stefan, you can reach her h…

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Continuous vulnerability scanning in production - Oshrat Nir from ARMO 24:32

1y ago24:32

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Running vulnerability scanners during development and in your build pipeline is great, but not enough. Newly emerging CVEs, and other application behavior anomalies need to be caught in production. Oshrat Nir, from ARMO, talks about the importance of runtime vulnerability scanning. If you have questions to Oshrat, you can reach her here: LinkedIn: …

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Broadcom offers VMware freebies, Linux package managers disagree on AI and broken VPNs everywhere. 1:05:13

1y ago1:05:13

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We chat about the latest software news, including JetBrains doubling down on process after the Rapid7 spat and Python having a bad time with PyPI and packages. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything…

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How Oracle transforms its operation into a cloud business - Gerald Venzl from Oracle 24:37

1y ago24:37

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Gerald Venzl, lead product manager for Oracle databases, talks about the shift of focus away from on-premise databases towards the cloud. It's a big change for a company like Oracle, but a necessary one. Learn more about the challenges and why Oracle believes multi-cloud is the future. If you have questions to Gerald, you can reach him here: Linked…

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Automated Vulnerability Detection throughout your Pipeline - Brian Vermeer from Synk 24:50

1y ago24:50

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Brian Vermeer from Snyk, a cybersecurity company providing tooling to detect common code issues and vulnerabilities throughout your development and deployment pipeline, talks about the necessity of multi checks, the commonly found threads, and how important it is to rebuild images for every deployment, even if the code hasn’t changed. If you have q…

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PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them - Jimmy Angelakos 21:37

1y ago21:37

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Jimmy Angelakos, a freelance consultant, talks about his experiences with customers running PostgreSQL on bare-metal, in the cloud, and on Kubernetes. He also talks about his new book "PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" (discount link below). If you have questions to Jimmy, you can reach him here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vyrus…

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Anaconda and Accelerating AI Development with Rob Futrick 44:21

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Anaconda is a popular platform for data science, machine learning, and AI. It provides trusted repositories of Python and R packages and has over 35 million users worldwide. Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchiso…

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JetBrains doubles down on process, and Python is having a bad time with packages. 46:43

1y ago46:43

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We chat about the latest software news, including JetBrains doubling down on process after the Rapid7 spat and Python having a bad time with PyPI and packages. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything…

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Change Data Capture and Stream Processing in the Cloud - Gunnar Morling from Decodable 23:24

1y ago23:24

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Gunnar Morling, from Decodable, a company simplifying the use of Apache Flink, talks about how to extract modifications from a database using change data capture tools, such as Debezium, and how to use Apache Flink or Decodable to run your real-time analytics or queries in a stream processing fashion. If you have questions to Gunnar, you can reach …

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How API Gateways help to improve your security - Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai 27:16

1y ago27:16

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Nicolas Fränkel from API7.ai, the major company behind the Apache APISIX API gateway, talks about how APISIX helps you implement rate limiting, customer-specific behavior, and how API gateways in general help secure your APIs. Editor's note: Sorry for the bad audio quality. The recording got messed up. For questions, you can reach Nicolas at: Linke…

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Building a Time Series Database in the Cloud - Steven Sklar from QuestDB 23:39

1+ y ago23:39

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Steven Sklar from QuestDB, a company producing a time series database for large IoT, metrics, observability and other time-component data sets, talks about how they implemented their database offering, from building their own operator to how storage is handled. For questions, you can reach Steven at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-skl…

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Building and operating a production-grade PostgreSQL in Kubernetes - Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres 24:44

1+ y ago24:44

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres, a company providing the necessary tooling to run a production-grade PostgreSQL in Kubernetes. Álvaro talks about the issues with the many-solutions-to-a-problem situation in Postgres and how it can be overwhelming and alarming to newcomers. For questions, you can reach Álvaro at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.…

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How to automatically save money with AWS EC2 spot instances - Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting 24:05

1+ y ago24:05

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Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting, a company helping to cost-optimize their AWS EC2 spent by automatically supplying matching workloads with spot instances. For questions, you can reach Cristian at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristimagherusan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magheru_san You can learn more about AutoSpotting at: …

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Broadcom squeezes VMware and Avast need a rethink. 45:08

1+ y ago45:08

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We chat about the latest software news, including Broadcom continuing squeeze with VMware subscriptions and Avast loses to the FTC over user data. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and James Ruskin as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything we talked about t…

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Kubernetes is the platform to build platforms, like Cloud Run or Fargate - Abdelfettah Sghiouar from Google 24:41

1+ y ago24:41

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In this episode of Cloud Commute, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Abdel Sghiouar, a Kubernetes expert from Google, to discuss various aspects of cloud technology, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions. Abdel, who has been with Google for a decade and specializes in Kubernetes networking, security, and storage, shares insights into the…

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Constellation, a Kubernetes distribution to provide full end-to-end encryption with Confidential Computing - Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems 23:28

1+ y ago23:28

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In this episode, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems, a company specializing in confidential computing technologies. Moritz shares his background in computer security and his journey into co-founding Edgeless Systems. He dives deep into the concept of confidential computing, explaining its hardware-based approach to en…

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How Distributed SQL helps mitigate downtimes and outages - Franck Pachot from Yugabyte 22:42

1+ y ago22:42

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In this episode of our podcast, host Chris Engelbert welcomes Franck Pachot from Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database company. Franck, a developer advocate with extensive experience in databases, discusses the advantages of distributed SQL databases over traditional single-node SQL databases. He explains that Yugabyte offers the robust features of …

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Sustainability in data centers or how to shrink your carbon footprint while saving money - Rich Kenny from Interact 24:40

1+ y ago24:40

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In this episode, host Chris Engelbert sits down with Rich Kenny, Managing Director of Interact and a visiting lecturer at London South Bank University. Rich shares his extensive experience in machine learning-based environmental consultancy and his work on the circular economy. Rich dives into Interact's innovative product that optimizes the perfor…

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Windows gets a sudo command, open-source fragmentation and Ivanti having a bad week. 36:16

1+ y ago36:16

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We wrestle with Windows getting a sudo command (didn't it already have one?), Bluesky going GA and nginx fragmenting. We also dig into the recent security news, where Ivanti is having a bad day. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger, as they chat through the latest tech and security news of the last month. …

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Vercel AI with Lee Robinson 49:21

1+ y ago49:21

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Vercel provides a cloud platform to rapidly deploy web projects, and they develop the highly successful Next.js framework. The company recently made headlines when they announced v0 which is a generative AI tool to create React code from text prompts. The generated code uses open-source tools like Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Lee Robinson is the VP …

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Algolia with Sean Mullaney 49:18

1+ y ago49:18

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Algolia is a platform that provides search as a service. The company was founded in 2012, was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 class, and has become highly popular for integrating modern search functionality into web-facing services. Sean Mullaney is the CTO of Algolia and has worked at Google X, Stripe, and Zolando. He joins the show today to ta…

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JetBrains AI with Jodie Burchell 55:01

1+ y ago55:01

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Jodie Burchell is the Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains, which makes integrated development environments or, IDEs, for many major languages. After observing the rapid growth of the AI coding assistant landscape, the company recently announced integration of an AI assistant into their IDEs. Jodie joins the show today to talk about why the…