Best Thenewstack Podcasts (2025)

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Kubernetes GPU Management Just Got a Major Upgrade 35:26

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Nvidia Distinguished Engineer Kevin Klues noted that low-level systems work is invisible when done well and highly visible when it fails — a dynamic that frames current Kubernetes innovations for AI. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Klues and AWS product manager Jesse Butler discussed two emerging capabilities: dynamic resource alloc…

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The Rise of the Cognitive Architect 22:53

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At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI teams. He envisions developers evolving into “cognitive architects,” responsible for breaking down large, complex problems and distributing work across both AI agents and humans. Complementing this is the…

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Why the CNCF's New Executive Director is Obsessed With Inference 25:09

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Jonathan Bryce, the new CNCF executive director, argues that inference—not model training—will define the next decade of computing. Speaking at KubeCon North America 2025, he emphasized that while the industry obsesses over massive LLM training runs, the real opportunity lies in efficiently serving these models at scale. Cloud-native infrastructure…

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Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board 30:40

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmented AI ecosystem. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, the program establishes open, community-driven standards to ensure AI applications run reliably and portably across different …

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How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain with Deterministic Testing 21:18

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The etcd project — a distributed key-value store older than Kubernetes — recently faced significant challenges due to maintainer turnover and the resulting loss of unwritten institutional knowledge. Lead maintainer Marek Siarkowicz explained that as longtime contributors left, crucial expertise about testing procedures and correctness guarantees di…

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Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager? 24:45

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Helm — originally a hackathon project called Kate’s Place — turned 10 in 2025, marking the milestone with the release of Helm 4, its first major update in six years. Created by Matt Butcher and colleagues as a playful take on “K8s,” the early project won a small prize but quickly grew into a serious effort when Deus leadership recognized the need f…

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All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization 16:13

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Kubernetes has relied on role-based access control (RBAC) since 2017, but its simplicity limits what developers can express, said Micah Hausler, principal engineer at AWS, on The New Stack Makers. RBAC only allows actions; it can’t enforce conditions, denials, or attribute-based rules. Seeking a more expressive authorization model for Kubernetes, H…

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Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible 19:18

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JupyterLite, a fully browser-based distribution of JupyterLab, is enabling new levels of global scalability in technical education. Developed by Sylvain Corlay’s QuantStack team, it allows math and programming lessons to run entirely in students’ browsers — kernel included — without relying on Docker or cloud-scale infrastructure. Its most prominen…

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2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS 23:16

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AWS’s approach to Elastic Kubernetes Service has evolved significantly since its 2018 launch. According to Mike Stefanik, Senior Manager of Product Management for EKS and ECR, today’s users increasingly represent the late majority—teams that want Kubernetes without managing every component themselves. In a conversation onThe New Stack Makers, Stefa…

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From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going? 44:20

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At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat - explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and …

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026 54:43

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AWS re:Invent has long featured CTO Werner Vogels’ closing keynote, but this year he signaled it may be his last, emphasizing it’s time for “younger voices” at Amazon. After 21 years with the company, Vogels reflected on arriving as an academic and being stunned by Amazon’s technical scale—an energy that still drives him today. He released his annu…

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How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem? 22:21

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DevOps practitioners — whether developers, operators, SREs or business stakeholders — increasingly rely on telemetry to guide decisions, yet face growing complexity, siloed teams and rising observability costs. In a conversation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, IBM’s Jacob Yackenovich emphasized the importance of collecting high-granulari…

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How Kubernetes Became the New Linux 20:28

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Major banks once built their own Linux kernels because no distributions existed, but today commercial distros — and Kubernetes — are universal. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, AWS’s Jesse Butler noted that Kubernetes has reached the same maturity Linux once did: organizations no longer build bespoke control planes but rely on shared stan…

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Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork 27:08

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Clockwork began with a narrow goal—keeping clocks synchronized across servers—but soon realized that its precise latency measurements could reveal deeper data center networking issues. This insight led the company to build a hardware-agnostic monitoring and remediation platform capable of automatically routing around faults. Today, Clockwork’s tech…

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Jupyter Deploy: the New Middle Ground between Laptops and Enterprise 22:10

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At JupyterCon 2025, Jupyter Deploy was introduced as an open source command-line tool designed to make cloud-based Jupyter deployments quick and accessible for small teams, educators, and researchers who lack cloud engineering expertise. As described by AWS engineer Jonathan Guinegagne, these users often struggle in an “in-between” space—needing mo…

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From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI 23:26

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In an interview at JupyterCon, Brian Granger — co-creator of Project Jupyter and senior principal technologist at AWS — reflected on Jupyter’s evolution and how AI is redefining open source sustainability. Originally inspired by physics’ modular principles, Granger and co-founder Fernando Pérez designed Jupyter with flexible, extensible components …

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Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas’? 23:14

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Jupyter AI v3 marks a major step forward in integrating intelligent coding assistance directly into JupyterLab. Discussed by AWS engineers David Qiu and Piyush Jain at JupyterCon, the new release introduces AI personas— customizable, specialized assistants that users can configure to perform tasks such as coding help, debugging, or analysis. Unlike…

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Stop Writing Code, Start Writing Docs 1:03:25

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In this episode of The New Stack Podcast, hosts Alex Williams and Frederic Lardinois spoke with Keith Ballinger, Vice President and General Manager of Google Cloud Platform Developer Experience (GPC), about the evolution of agentic coding tools and the future of programming. Ballinger, a hands-on executive who still codes, discussed Gemini CLI, Goo…

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Why PyTorch Won 29:43

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At the PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, Luca Antiga — CTO of Lightning AI and head of the PyTorch Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council — discussed the evolution and influence of PyTorch. Originally designed to be “Pythonic” and researcher-friendly Antiga emphasized that PyTorch has remained central across major AI shifts — from early ne…

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Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on Why AI Coding Doesn't Help You Ship Faster 39:23

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Harness co-founder Jyoti Bansal highlights a growing issue in software development: while AI tools help generate more code, they often create bottlenecks further along the pipeline, especially in testing, deployment, and compliance. Since its 2017 launch, Harness has aimed to streamline these stages using AI and machine learning. With the rise of l…

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How Agentgateway Solves Agentic AI’s Connectivity Challenges 20:35

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The agentic AI space faces challenges around secure, governed connectivity between agents, tools, large language models, and microservices. To address this, Solo.io developed two open-source projects: Kagent and Agentgateway. While Kagent, donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, helps scale AI agents, it lacks a secure way to mediate comm…

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Sentry Founder: AI Patch Generation Is 'Awful' Right Now 45:04

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David Cramer, founder and chief product officer of Sentry, remains skeptical about generative AI's current ability to replace human engineers, particularly in software production. While he acknowledges AI tools aren't yet reliable enough for full autonomy—especially in tasks like patch generation—he sees value in using large language models (LLMs) …

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Why Linear Built an API For Agents 48:11

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Cursor, the AI code editor, recently integrated with Linear, a project management tool, enabling developers to assign tasks directly to Cursor's background coding agent within Linear. The collaboration felt natural, as Cursor already used Linear internally. Linear's new agent-specific API played a key role in enabling this integration, providing ag…

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ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost 57:39

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In this episode of The New Stack Agents, ServiceNow CTO and co-founder Pat Casey discusses why the company runs 90% of its workloads—including AI infrastructure—on its own physical servers rather than the public cloud. ServiceNow maintains GPU hubs across global data centers, enabling efficient, low-latency AI operations. Casey downplays the comple…

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How the EU’s Cyber Act Burdens Lone Open Source Developers 19:30

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The European Union’s upcoming Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes into effect in October 2026, with the remainder of the requirements going into effect in December 2027, and introduces significant cybersecurity compliance requirements for software vendors, including those who rely heavily on open source components. At the Open Source Summit Europe, Chr…