Best Runbooks Podcasts (2025)

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Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents 24:55

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9d ago24:55

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Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world. Episode notes: Resolve AI is building agents to help you troub…

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

13d ago49:59

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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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Vibe coding needs a spec, too 26:45

2d ago26:45

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Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. …

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

1d ago53:20

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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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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents 27:50

5d ago27:50

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Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI. Episode notes: Linear is a tool for planning and building pro…

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What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 31:16

10d ago31:16

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Product Suite at Stack Overflow, unpack the key takeaways from the 2025 Developer Survey for tech and business leaders. The discussion focuses on the evolving developer relationship with AI, the continu…

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Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems 26:28

12d ago26:28

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Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosystem healthy, the challenges OS communities have faced with the rise of AI, and the implications of data privacy and user choice in the age of multi-agent AI systems. Episode notes: Mozilla.ai is build…

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Why rent a cloud when you can build one? 29:03

16d ago29:03

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Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible. Episode notes: Cozystack is a Kubernetes-based framework for building a private cloud environment. Connect w…

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AI agents for your digital chores 34:43

19d ago34:43

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Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people interact with advertisements and the web as a whole, and the challenges that proactive AI agents may face when being integrated into workflows and personal internet use. Episode notes: Yutori is building A…

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Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript 27:08

23d ago27:08

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Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities. Episod…

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Context is king for secure, AI-generated code 28:15

26d ago28:15

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Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI. E…

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One is not the loneliest number for API calls 26:21

1M ago26:21

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Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities of and need for data normalization, and the role that AI and MCP plays in the future of API functionality. Episode notes: Merge connects you to any third-party system for fast, secure integrations for yo…

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Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools 20:29

1M ago20:29

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In the second part of this two-part Leaders of Code episode, Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, and Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google Developer Experiences, dive beyond AI hype to explore the shifts reshaping how engineering teams operate and scale. From the critical role of documentation quality in AI workflows to …

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The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases 29:34

1M ago29:34

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga, celebrating the release of his book IT Dictionary. In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technolog…

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As your AI gets smarter, so must your API 28:19

1M ago28:19

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Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new standard for agents, the importance of observability and security in AI systems, and the importance for businesses and entrepreneurs to leverage opportunities in the agentic AI space now. Episode notes…

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Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience 26:35

1M ago26:35

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Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impact of AI on dev experience, and how Spotify approaches platform engineering and standardization to help teams solve for specific needs. Episode notes: Backstage is an open-source IDP by Spotify that re…

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Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research 55:29

1M ago55:29

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute Jenna Pederson, Staff Developer Relations at Pinecone, joins us to close the loop on Vector Databases. Demystifies how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and also unexpected applications. Jenna takes us beyond the buzzword bingo, explaining how vector databases ar…

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Democratizing your data access with AI agents 29:28

1M ago29:28

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Jeff Hollan, director of product at Snowflake, joins Ryan to discuss the role that data plays in making AI and AI agents better. Along the way, they discuss how a database leads to an AI platform, Snowflake’s new data marketplace, and the role data will play in AI agents. Episode notes: Snowflake provides a fully-managed data platform that develope…

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Off with your CMS’s head! Composability and security in headless CMS 23:20

1M ago23:20

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Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger, VP of Engineering at Storyblok, to talk about how headless content management systems (CMS) fit into an increasingly componentized software landscape. They run through the differences between headless and traditional CMS systems (and databases), prototyping and security concerns, and how a team building distribut…

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The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds 52:41

2M ago52:41

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Share Episode This episode we are joined by Andrew Moreland, co-founder of Chalk. Andrew explains how their company’s core business model is to deploy their software directly into their customers’ cloud environments. This decision was driven by the need to handle highly sensitive data, like PII and financial records, that customers don't want to ha…

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What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company 24:20

2M ago24:20

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Ryan chats with Karen Ng, EVP of Product at HubSpot, to chat about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how they implemented it for their server for their CRM product. They chat the emergence of this as the standard for agentic interactions, the challenges of implementing the server and integrating it with their ecosystem, and how agentic AI has affec…

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Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI 32:36

2M ago32:36

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Ryan welcomes Geraint North, AI and developer platforms fellow at Arm, to dive into the impact of GenAI on chip design, Arm’s approach to designing flexible CPU architectures, and the challenges of optimizing large language models at the chip level for edge devices. Episode notes: Arm is a global compute platform that allows the world’s leading tec…

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How AI is reshaping developer teams and the future of software development 31:19

2M ago31:19

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In this two-part episode of Leaders of Code, Peter O’Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, welcomes Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google, Developer Experiences, for a deep dive into the future of software development. They explore how AI-assisted tools are reshaping the developer experience, going far beyond just writing code. Fr…

Runbooks Podcasts

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The Stack Overflow Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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Getting the Real Work Done in Cybersecurity (Audio)

Security Weekly

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Getting the Real Work Done in Cybersecurity (Video)

Security Weekly

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Adventures in DevOps

Will Button, Warren Parad

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Page it to the Limit

PagerDuty Developer Relations

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Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents 24:55

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

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Vibe coding needs a spec, too 26:45

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents 27:50

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What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 31:16

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Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems 26:28

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Why rent a cloud when you can build one? 29:03

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AI agents for your digital chores 34:43

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Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript 27:08

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Context is king for secure, AI-generated code 28:15

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One is not the loneliest number for API calls 26:21

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Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools 20:29

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The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases 29:34

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As your AI gets smarter, so must your API 28:19

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Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience 26:35

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Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research 55:29

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Democratizing your data access with AI agents 29:28

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Off with your CMS’s head! Composability and security in headless CMS 23:20

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The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds 52:41

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What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company 24:20

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Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI 32:36

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How AI is reshaping developer teams and the future of software development 31:19