Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking
Apr 17, 2026Tools or frameworks? Erik dives into the challenges of infrastructure as code, infra migrations, code reviews and the perennial problem of validation.
GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us
Apr 9, 2026Join Jaikumar Ganesh talk about the CPU/GPU divide, creative hiring strategies and the responsibility of the engineering organization
Upskilling your agents
Mar 28, 2026Dan Wahlin rom Microsoft joins us to talk about agentic coding, deploying to the cloud and agent security.
There's no way it's DNS...
Mar 20, 2026How much do you know about the protocol that everything is built upon? Simone Carletti talks about abstractions, standards, and the joy of DNS.
Getting better at networking
Mar 15, 2026Don't be alarmed, we mean the computer networking kind. Daan Boerlage nerds out on IPv6 and explains how it makes your cloud bill cheaper.
Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins
Mar 6, 2026We quiz Matt Edmunds, long time UX and product designer, on pratical AI-assisted software development
DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags
Feb 20, 2026Melinda Fekete talks about her love of documentation in the age of LLMs, reliability challenges, and using feature flags when building a feature flag platform.
The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment Metrics, and the Art of Deleting Code
Jan 30, 2026Dorota Parad debugs the industry's obsession with productivity, arguing that measuring code is really factory widgets nonsense.
Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering
Jan 16, 2026Paul Conroy joins to tell us all about trolling scrapers and Running Elections with unconventional engineering solutions using Google Sheets and Cloudflare.
Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review
Jan 2, 2026Dorota, CEO of Authress, guides us on the adventure to roast the 2025 DORA report — Focusing what productivity really means, the impact to our organizations, and who AI is really for.
Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here!
Dec 15, 2025Sam Goto from Chrome talks us through the treacherous adventure of getting auth into browser land
Are we building the right thing?
Dec 4, 2025Elise Stanley Brevald walks us through what it means to focus on the user experience and how to collaborate with Engineering effectively.
Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring
Nov 20, 2025Olga Kundzich joins to discuss why cloud-native apps decay in six months due to shifting dependencies and how OpenRewrite uses Lossless Semantic Trees to automate refactoring.
AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking
Oct 31, 2025John Papa shares insights into the creation of VS Code, GitHub Copilot, where software testing went wrong, experiences at Disney, and what comes next for AI.
Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks
Oct 20, 2025Lawrence Jones reveals just how incident.io is automatically diagnosing production issues, talks about everything from running customer code on virtual machines to creating one-time runbooks for any incident.
The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases
Oct 2, 2025Adam Korga, author of the satirical guide to IT euphemisms, dissects infamous tech disasters, the fallacy of 'doing Agile,' and the crucial lessons of survivorship bias in postmortems
Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research
Sep 24, 2025Jenna Pederson demystifies vector databases, exploring how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and unexpected applications.
The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds
Sep 17, 2025Andrew Moreland joins us to explain just why Chalk chose to deploy their data platform for ML into the customer cloud. Features utilizing time travel to prevent model bias and ASTs for running unsafe code.
How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale
Sep 7, 2025Ang Li, Director of Engineering at Observe, shares how they built a petabyte-scale observability platform using Snowflake, Kafka, and open data formats.
The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos
Aug 24, 2025Pulumi's GM Meagan Cojocar tackles the product leader's journey, the future of open source, her experience at AWS versus Pulumi, and the philosophical debate around LLMs in DevOps.
FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend
Jul 31, 2025We explore what exactly is FinOps supposed to mean and the core goal for engineering teams. This episode delves into waste reduction, right-sizing, and aligning financial incentives with engineering goals.
The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures
Jul 17, 2025The Auth experts square off hoping to get to the bottom of which architecture is truly best with guest Brian Pontarelli.
Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win?
Jun 25, 2025A critical look at Kubernetes' dominance and was AI a mistake? Find out with Omer Hamerman.
Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity
May 29, 2025Join Aimee Knight as she shares her journey and insights into the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions
May 21, 2025Dive into the world of MCP servers and agent interactions with Gil Feig.
The Blog Post Release Automation
May 18, 2025The automation that runs the Adventures in DevOps PodCast