Podcasts about DevOps

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

Saif Al-Jabbar Khan shares his journey from a DevOps engineer to a successful paid search marketer, highlighting key lessons from his experiences with client management, conversion tracking, and AI integration in digital marketing. Key topicsSaif's career transition from DevOps to marketingImportance of defining qualified leads earlyCommon mistakes in conversion trackingUsing AI for nuanced account analysisThe role of WhatsApp in Middle Eastern marketingStrategies for managing client expectationsThe impact of landing pages on campaign successLessons learned from account auditsChapters00:00 Introduction and Guest Background03:58 The Importance of Qualified Lead Definition11:52 Improving Lead Qualification Rates15:49 The Role of Landing Pages and Client Communication20:04 Adapting Strategies Based on Data Insights22:09 The Impact of Data and System Changes24:00 Advice for Paid Search Marketers Facing Crises26:00 Reviewing and Refining Lead Criteria30:03 Common Mistakes in Account Management33:56 Using AI for Nuanced Account Analysis36:02 WhatsApp as a Key Channel in Dubai38:08 AI and Privacy Considerations42:09 The Role of Journey Aware Bidding43:47 Final Tips for Paid Search Success45:02 Fun Question: PPC Movie Title45:57 Upcoming Events and Networking OpportunitiesFind Saif on LinkedIn Join us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Slack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policiesAWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidationAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and NetskopeAutomating filtered Cost and Usage Report exports with AWS Data ExportsAWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 supportHappy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2I'm an Amazon SVP who hadn't coded in 25 years. Then I wrote 100,000 lines of code with AI.AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics togetherState of Kansas modernizes mainframe file transfer using AWS Transfer FamilyFive AWS security bulletins, zero AWS-side fixes

Send us Fan MailNancy Wang is the Chief Technology Officer at 1Password, where she leads the global engineering team securing the digital safety and identities of millions of prosumers, families, and enterprise workloads. An expert in building highly scalable systems and data protection platforms, she holds seven patents in cloud infrastructure and serves on the boards of early-stage cybersecurity leaders, including Observo AI, which was recently acquired by SentinelOne to power the data intelligence layer for its SIEM products. Prior to joining 1Password, she became the youngest person ever promoted to Director and General Manager at AWS, at age 31, leading AWS Data Protection to serve 98% of the Fortune 500 and building a multi-billion dollar business within five years. She also helped build cloud and data protection products at Rubrik, held engineering roles at Google and in the U.S. intelligence community, and now brings a rare combination of deep infrastructure expertise and security-first product thinking to the age of AI agents. In this episode, Nancy sits down with Dan to explore the massive security responsibilities of the agentic era.In this conversation, we discuss:Why the transition to autonomous AI agents doesn't require brand-new credentials, and how familiar principles of human and machine identity extend to the agentic era.How a proprietary confidential computing architecture built on specialized enclaves protects sensitive user data, even in the event of a catastrophic central breach.Why 1Password actively chose not to release a public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server despite intense market pressure.How a specialized DevOps agent trained on human incident response can learn to navigate real-time outages, runbooks, and cloud traffic monitoring.Why AI is compressing the cost of execution in software, and why the real career advantage now shifts toward taste, judgment, systems thinking, and deep fluency with AI tools.Why prioritizing potential and tenacity over traditional resumes is the key to building diverse engineering teams, and how sponsorship accelerates the rise of high-slope talent   Explore the Conversation00:00 Intro and AI Fun Fact: EvilToken and the Rise of AI-Driven Phishing03:48 Introducing Nancy Wang, CTO at 1Password and AWIT Founder09:07 Secure by Design: Inside the Origin Story and Expansion of 1Password13:32 The Business of Trust: Why 1Password Is in the Security and Relationship Game15:31 Zero-Knowledge Architecture: What Actually Happens if 1Password Faces a Breach?24:06 The Phishing-Resistant Future: Biometrics, Passkeys, and Agent Identity28:17 Inside the Machine: DevOps Agents and Real-Time Incident Response31:22 Rejecting the MCP Server: Why AI Safety Trumps Instant Velocity34:28 The T-Shaped Engineer: Why AI Compresses Execution and Elevates Human Taste39:18 Be a High Sloper: Sponsoring the Next Generation of Tech Leaders Resources:Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work NewsletterConnect with Nancy Wang on LinkedInAI fun fact article: Hackers use AI to bypass passwords in large-scale phishing attacks Other episodes mentioned on the show:Episode 167 with Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara and co-founder of Cloudera, on the tech behind AI search-Join Dan Turchin and 4 seasoned technology and people leaders on Sept. 17 for an executive discussion on AI, leadership, and the future of work. Attendees will receive a complimentary personalized AI Maturity Industry Benchmarks Report ($499 value). Reserve your seat: https://go.peoplereign.io/virtual-event-when-intelligence-is-everywhere-intelligence-is-nowhere

On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Adam Larsen, Principal Developer at Aurora Educational Technologies, to explore what technology and AI should actually look like in K-12 education. They discuss using tech to empower teachers rather than replace them, the risks of outsourcing critical thinking to AI, student data privacy, and what happens when schools become dependent on tools that may not be affordable forever. Adam also shares how AWS became his go-to platform for solving complex education data problems, and why sometimes the best technology is simply the one that reliably gets the job done.Show Highlights: 00:00 Critical Thinking Warning00:15 Meet the Guest01:07 From Psych to Edtech02:07 Teachers and Tool Whiplash07:29 AI as a Teaching Aid10:07 Process Over Shortcuts14:29 Tech Misconceptions in Schools16:38 Privacy and Picking Vendors21:50 AI Costs and Ecosystem Bets26:33 Building on AWS and Wrap UpSponsored by: duckbillhq.com

Traditional peer review processes are breaking down in the new AI era. Dylan Ratcliffe, founder and CEO of Overmind Technology, joins Ned and Kyler to discuss the importance of treating AI as a machine to be audited rather than a peer. Together they share practical advice on how to adapt peer review processes and culture... Read more »

Traditional peer review processes are breaking down in the new AI era. Dylan Ratcliffe, founder and CEO of Overmind Technology, joins Ned and Kyler to discuss the importance of treating AI as a machine to be audited rather than a peer. Together they share practical advice on how to adapt peer review processes and culture... Read more »

Meter: Visit https://meter.com/itcareer to book a demo--AI is changing everything… but not every tech job is replaceable.In this video, I break down the real tech careers that are in high demand, pay extremely well, and — most importantly — AI can't easily replace.Whether you're just starting in IT or looking to future-proof your career, this is your 2026 roadmap. We'll cover everything from AI and cybersecurity to networking, data engineering, cloud, and DevOps, explaining what each role does, how much it pays, and the exact skills you'll need to stay ahead.Here's what you'll learn: Which tech jobs will be safe from AI in 2026 The skills employers are begging for right now Real salary ranges (no hype — just facts) What challenges to expect and how to overcome them How to start preparing today, even with zero experienceThese are the roles that are not just surviving the AI revolution — they're thriving because of it.

On this episode of High Stakes with Steve Rozenberg, Steve sits down with Brian Samson, founder of Plug, a company connecting Latin American tech talent (software developers, DevOps, AI and data engineers) with U.S. companies. Brian didn't grow up wanting to be an entrepreneur. He spent a decade as a W-2 employee getting fired repeatedly for being too independent, before eventually building three companies that grew from zero to over $4 million in ARR. Brian and Steve dig into the near-shore staffing model and why Latin America has become one of the strongest talent markets for U.S. businesses, a topic Steve has direct experience with after restructuring his own contractor business around remote team members. They also get into the harder chapters of Brian's story: a contentious $2 million investor relationship that ended in a bitter buyout, and a business that went from steady income to zero revenue overnight when COVID hit, right after he and his wife had a newborn and bought a new house. The conversation moves into what it actually took to move past that bitterness, the ego-driven missteps that come with entrepreneurial overconfidence, and how Brian rebuilt his identity around something bigger than the outcome of any single business. They close on what success really looks like for Brian today: being present for school pickups, karate, and dinner, living in Hawaii by choice, and treating time as the resource that never comes back. The episode leaves you with a question worth sitting with: are you building your business to create memories with the people you love, or has "someday" quietly become "never"? Connect with Brian Samson: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briansamson/ Youtube: @NearshoreCafePodcast Twitter (X): https://x.com/plugg_tech Connect with Plugg Technologies: Website: https://plugg.tech/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plugg_technologies/ __________________________________ https://steverozenberg.com/ __________________________________ Steve Rozenberg, originally aspiring to be an international pilot, navigated a challenging shift in his career trajectory when the 9/11 attacks jeopardized his pilot career. Turning adversity into opportunity, he embraced his entrepreneurial spirit and transformed his situation into a multimillion-dollar success story. As the proud owner and founder of The Rozenberg Group, an esteemed international consulting firm, Steve is dedicated to helping clients achieve their goals and regain control of their time and freedom. Beyond his role as a successful entrepreneur, Steve is renowned for his dynamic keynote presentations. He delivers motivational and inspiring speeches that resonate with audiences, providing actionable steps, business systems, and a roadmap to success. His direct yet hopeful messages engage audiences both mentally and emotionally, instilling a positive outlook and guiding them toward success in various aspects of life. Despite facing an unimaginable tragedy on March 6th, 2023, with the loss of his beloved son Jett in a motorcycle accident, Steve demonstrated an indomitable spirit. In honor of Jett's remarkable life, filled with global adventures, martial arts, music, and inspiration, Steve and his wife Renee established the LIVE LIKE JETT SCHOLARSHIP FUND. Learn more: livelikejett.org This scholarship fund serves as a tribute to Jett's legacy, encouraging others to embrace life fully and persistently pursue their dreams. The fund specifically supports high school students seeking to enter the trade industry, mirroring Jett's passion as a welder. Currently, Steve Rozenberg channels his extensive experience as a successful real estate investor to mentor and guide individuals toward prosperity. Despite the challenges he has faced, Steve remains committed to inspiring, uplifting, and creating a positive impact on the lives of those around him. ➤https://www.facebook.com/SteveRozenberg1 ➤https://www.instagram.com/rozenbergsteve _______________________________________________________________________ #SteveRozenberg #TwoDayTakeoff #Opportunity #ChangeYourLife #Entrepreneur #LiveLikeJett #FinancialFreedom

Traditional peer review processes are breaking down in the new AI era. Dylan Ratcliffe, founder and CEO of Overmind Technology, joins Ned and Kyler to discuss the importance of treating AI as a machine to be audited rather than a peer. Together they share practical advice on how to adapt peer review processes and culture... Read more »

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24th, with Corey Quinn. Links:AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editorAWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon BedrockAWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) RegionAWS Billing and Cost Management Introduces Managed Dashboards for Instant Cloud Financial VisibilityIn the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São PauloAmazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernelIntroducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15AWS and Amazon WorkSpaces recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scaleAWS Network Firewall now supports rule hit countUpdates to your AWS Sign-In experienceFour AWS Security Bulletins in One August Week

Lovable CISO Igor Andriushchenko on soft guardrails vs. hard boundaries, securing vibe coding for non-developers, and building a security program at a 10x company.I sit down with Igor Andriushchenko, Head of Security and CISO at Lovable, the AI development platform behind one of the fastest growth stories in the space. Igor joined as the first security hire when the company was around 40 people. A year later he is running a 20+ person team covering product security, GRC, IT, and platform safety for a company with 400 laptops in MDM and no sign of slowing down.We get into what it actually takes to secure AI-native development, both inside a hypergrowth startup and on a platform where most of the people shipping software are not developers and definitely not security practitioners.In this episode:Building a security program for the company you will be in 12 months instead of the one you are in todaySoft guardrails versus hard guardrails, and how to decide which one a problem deservesWhy hard blocks push AI-assisted workflows into the shadowsRooting guardrail decisions in business goals, risks, and threats rather than tool defaultsDemocratized development without democratized security, and what a platform owes the 99%Lovable's auto-fix toggle, per-app threat models, and the goal of an app with no security tab at allWhether models will ever produce secure code by default, and why defense in depth still carries the loadGoverning the reality that every employee vibe coding an app looks a lot like a new vendorGRC engineering as the way to measure control efficiency layer by layer against AI-powered attackersCRA, NIS2, and the EU AI Act landing on citizen developers who never thought of themselves as software manufacturersChapters: 0:00 Intro 0:23 Igor's background from DevOps to CISO 3:54 Scaling security at a 10x company 6:07 Reinventing the team when growth breaks it 08:26 Soft guardrails versus hard blocks 14:05 Tying guardrails to business risk 17:32 Democratized development, undemocratized security 18:52 Shared responsibility on an AI dev platform 21:16 Auto-fix, per-app threat models, and no security tab 25:21 Will models produce secure code by default? 29:56 Every employee vibe coding is a new vendor 30:57 Enterprise controls, publishing gates, and PII scanning 36:39 AI-powered attackers and why good enough changed 40:43 GRC engineering and measuring control efficiency 46:19 CRA, NIS2, and the citizen developer 52:41 Trust centers for builder apps 54:08 Closing thoughts on the vibe coding communityGuest links: Igor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-andriushchenko Lovable: https://lovable.devResilient Cyber: Newsletter and episode archive: https://www.resilientcyber.io Subscribe for more conversations with security practitioners and leaders.

In the third installment of the Wi-Fi networks series, Ethan Banks and Holly Podbielak discuss the basics of wireless security, the standards related to roaming between access points, and how to analyze access points to figure out which AP brand will best meet your organization’s needs. AdSpot Sponsor: Meter Most IT teams are managing networks... Read more »

William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp dig into the latest AI headlines, from the largest copyright settlement in American history to stolen AI models and invisible watermarks on Claude output. Plus, they discuss why so many companies have rallied around NVIDIA’s support for open weight AI models. Our hosts also examine the biggest questions arising from... Read more »

William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp dig into the latest AI headlines, from the largest copyright settlement in American history to stolen AI models and invisible watermarks on Claude output. Plus, they discuss why so many companies have rallied around NVIDIA’s support for open weight AI models. Our hosts also examine the biggest questions arising from... Read more »

ServiceNow and AWS reveal how the DevOps Agent and MCP Server Console are turning incident response into a fast, autonomous, fully governed process. Topics Include:Govind Menon (ServiceNow) and Arun Jacob (AWS) discuss MCP and A2A strategy.ServiceNow understands workflows; partners with AWS to power them with AI.AI Control Tower governs and secures agent access to enterprise data.MCP is the industry standard for how AI agents read and act.Action Fabric spans A2A, REST APIs, and MCP for agentic work.AWS DevOps Agent, built on Bedrock, resolves incidents through sub-agents.Admin and operator access patterns integrate with Dynatrace, Datadog, Slack, GitHub.Demo: ServiceNow incident automatically triggers DevOps Agent investigation and resolution.DevOps Agent writes findings live back into the ServiceNow incident ticket.ServiceNow champions capping MCP servers at 30 tools for performance.MCP Server Console lets teams build scoped, use-case-specific tool servers.NowAssist skills, Knowledge Graph, and REST APIs become MCP tools.Live demo connects a 38-tool custom MCP server to DevOps Agent.Role-based access ensures users only see their permitted MCP tools.ServiceNow's autonomous ITOM agents point toward unsupervised future operations. Participants:Govind Menon – Head of MCP Product, ServiceNow Arunsingh Jeyasingh Jacob – Senior Solution Architect - ISV, Amazon Web Services See how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 17th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon EC2 introduces application status checksAWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instancesAmazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messagesAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQubeBurst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWSAmazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you workIntroducing the next-generation AWS VPN Client with CLI support and admin controlsAWS Certificate Manager will discontinue email validation to prove domain validation for certificatesHow AWS IAM role manager rethinks the starting point for IAM rolesHow to authenticate customers during chat with Amazon Connect CustomerHow WeatherBug reduced storage costs by 80% using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and Kiro CLIIntroducing the new AWS Cloud Quest: AI-powered practice, hands-on building, and a path to official AWS badgesTwo bulletins, one CVE, and Base64 bites C++

Andrew Pla sits down with TJ Turner at Microsoft's TechMentor conference @ Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington, for a conversation about PowerShell, career growth, and the parts of working in IT that don't show up in the documentation. TJ traces his path from infrastructure through K-12, finance, and retail to his current role as a Cloud Evangelist at TD SYNNEX, along with his early days using PowerShell v2 and v3, competing in the Scripting Games, and helping start the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group. They also dig into real-world automation wins, including a PowerShell workflow that helped validate thousands of systems before a holiday weekend, plus burnout, community, asking for help, and what years of broken demos and IT mistakes can teach you about staying prepared and learning to adapt. Key Takeaways: · What got you here won't get you there. TJ's career moved from hands-on infrastructure into distribution, cloud, and technical evangelism, and none of those moves were necessarily part of the original plan. Staying open to new roles, skills, and opportunities has been a big part of that growth. · PowerShell changes how you think, not just how you work. TJ shares examples of using PowerShell to validate thousands of systems, automate VMware update workflows, and collect detailed system state information. Over time, that automation mindset became part of how he approaches problems, even as his career moved beyond day-to-day infrastructure work. · Community and communication are technical skills too. Whether it's recognizing burnout, asking for help, meeting someone at a conference, or admitting you don't know an answer during a presentation, the ability to connect with other people can have just as much impact on your career as knowing the technology. Guest Bio: TJ Turner is a Cloud Evangelist at TD SYNNEX, one of Microsoft's largest distributors in the CSP and partner channel. His background is in infrastructure, with experience spanning K-12, financial services, retail, and other enterprise environments. TJ got started with PowerShell during the v2 and v3 era, competed in the Scripting Games, and helped found the Philadelphia PowerShell User Group. Today, his work includes Azure, Microsoft 365, security, GitHub, DevOps, and helping partners grow their businesses. Resource Links: · TD SYNNEX Microsoft Partner Programs: https://www.tdsynnex.com/na/us/Microsoft/ · PDQ Connect PowerShell Scanner: https://www.pdq.com/powershell-scanner/ · PDQ PowerShell Scanner Blog Post: https://www.pdq.com/blog/the-powershell-scanner-has-arrived-in-pdq-connect/ · PDQ Community PowerShell Scanners Repository: https://github.com/pdqcom/PowerShell-Scanners · TJ Turner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=TJ+Turner+TD+SYNNEX The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ce9vxdkzDbo  

Rahul Sood has run the application security business at Harness for almost a year. He describes application security as one of the core pillars of the company, part of a vision of building a DevSecOps platform. A year ago Harness publicly announced that security accounted for a quarter of its revenue. Sood says the figure is now considerably higher. The company did not start there. Founder Jyoti Bansal thought about Harness for a decade before founding it, Sood says, after seeing the problem inside one of the largest banks. Harness launched as a DevOps platform, then merged with an API security company Bansal had also funded. The result is a platform that treats security as part of the developer workflow rather than a bolt-on, and covers it from code all the way to runtime. What changes when security lives inside the developer workflow? Developers stop leaving their own tools to chase findings. Harness aggregates results across scanners, deduplicates them, and puts remediation, assignment, and exemption requests in one place. Security teams get the other half of the picture through a policy engine that shows which policies fire on every build, which ones break a build, and where a developer asked for an exception, with a full audit trail behind it. Where is the bottleneck now that AI writes the code? It moved downstream. Sood says nearly every development team is generating more code with AI, while the volume actually reaching users has not risen at the same rate. By his estimate coding is 20 to 30 percent of the software development life cycle, and the remaining 70 to 80 percent happens after the code is written. That includes agents. Harness has extended the platform to support the Agent DLC, with native capabilities for AI evaluation and prompt testing alongside security coverage for agents from code to runtime. Sood points to two differences. The span from code to runtime covers agents while they are built and while they run, and skill scanning and prompt scanning were added to the same scanner already looking for code vulnerabilities rather than shipped as another tool to buy. The operational payoff shows up in release cadence. Sood describes a tier one US bank that maintained 150 separate policies and convened a team to confirm each one had been met before it could launch its banking app. Automating that review removed the meeting, and the bank now runs multiple launches within weeks. With 80 to 90 percent of software now assembled from third-party packages, libraries, and open source components, the same policy engine can block any build that pulls in a package which is end of life or malicious. This is a Brand Briefing. A Brand Briefing is an on-location conversation recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, putting a spotlight on the guest and their company and pairing it with the editorial reach of ITSPmagazine. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/performance/#briefing GUEST Rahul Sood, General Manager, Application Security at Harness On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rssoods/ RESOURCES Black Hat USA 2026 event coverage from ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-usa-2026-cybersecurity-event-coverage-in-las-vegas Harness: https://www.harness.io/ Harness customer case studies: https://www.harness.io/customers Securing the Agent DLC, by Rahul Sood: https://www.harness.io/blog/securing-the-agent-dlc Harness AI Security: https://www.harness.io/products/ai-security Harness Application Security Testing: https://www.harness.io/products/application-security-testing Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight ▶︎ Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS rahul sood, harness, sean martin, brand briefing, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, black hat usa 2026, application security, devsecops, agent dlc, ai security, api security, policy engine, software supply chain, open source risk, prompt scanning, skill scanning, code to runtime, developer experience, release velocity Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today, several members of our Packet Pushers podcast team assemble to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state... Read more »

Today, several members of our Packet Pushers podcast team assemble to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state... Read more »

Why does compliance paperwork fall behind the systems it describes? Because the systems change faster than the documents. Travis Howerton points to cloud native technologies that spin up and down on demand, which makes describing infrastructure in paperwork something that goes out of date instantly. Add new regulation for third party risk, supply chain, zero trust, and privacy, and an approach that was already expensive and frustrating stops being fit for purpose. RegScale answers that with compliance as code. The company went to NIST and helped write the standard that became OSCAL, the Open Security Controls Assessment Language, then built the capability for machines to attest to their own state using it. Paperwork starts writing itself, and CISOs get risk and compliance outcomes as a byproduct of operational excellence rather than as a separate project. Is automating the evidence trail a shortcut? Travis Howerton argues the opposite. It prevents corner cutting, because the alternative is what he calls compliance theater. An old general he worked for described that as a mother-in-law visit, where you clean the house to a ridiculous standard, everybody goes through the dance, and the moment the visit ends the kids destroy the house again. Where should a security team start automating? Start with what hurts. He tells people to think like a surgeon, who opens by asking the patient what is wrong, then work backwards from the pain. There is no easy button, and the honest starting point is the truth about how fast teams will need to react. That pain usually maps to one of three business drivers. Cut cost, or shift the share of budget going to checklist compliance toward tools that buy down risk. Get real-time assurance. Or earn the reps and certs needed to sell into a market, whether that is FedRAMP for government work or PCI for card data. Compressing those timelines by 70 to 80 percent lets a company get to market faster and grow revenue. The results Travis Howerton cites are specific. One large government agency is touting over $100 million in labor savings, and a Department of War customer with a 52-week end-to-end cycle has compressed it by 36 weeks using RegScale technology alongside other integrated tools. Having tripled, doubled, and doubled again over the last three years, RegScale stays focused on the largest and most complex organizations, with international markets and the energy sector on the horizon. This is a Brand Briefing. A Brand Briefing is an on-location conversation recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, putting a spotlight on the guest and their company and pairing it with the editorial reach of ITSPmagazine. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/performance/#briefing GUEST Travis Howerton, Co-Founder and CEO at RegScale LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travishowerton/ RESOURCES Black Hat USA 2026 event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-usa-2026-cybersecurity-event-coverage-in-las-vegas RegScale: https://regscale.com OSCAL, the Open Security Controls Assessment Language: https://pages.nist.gov/OSCAL/ Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight ▶︎ Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS travis howerton, regscale, sean martin, brand briefing, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, black hat usa 2026, compliance as code, continuous controls monitoring, oscal, grc engineering, fedramp, fisma, authority to operate, ai agents, risk management, cybersecurity compliance Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What does an AI-native CI look like? The Semaphore team joins me to talk about their focus on making your agent harness the gateway to testing, fixing, and deploying your code.Video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/HzXAdtVrW70★Show Links★Semaphore https://semaphore.io/Semaphore open source https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphoreSLSA Security Checklist https://slsa.dev/Creators & Guests Marcos Filipe - Guest Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Marko Gaćeša - Guest (00:00) - Introduction (00:29) - AI Native CI Vision (04:54) - Bret's Update (09:03) - Semaphore AI Journey (22:39) - Open Source Platform Shift (37:28) - Plugins CLI MCP Skills (43:11) - Work Until CI Is Green (45:42) - Test Boxes and Agentic CI Loop (57:39) - Sandboxing and Least Privilege (01:10:12) - Roadmap SLSA and Getting Started

Sponsored by Blocks: Save at least 20% on your AWS costs with AI-powered optimization and enterprise discounts. Get your free Cloud Check at https://blocks.cloud/alphalist?utm_source=alphalist&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=blocks-podcast-2026 Dana Lawson's path into tech started with backup tapes, not a keyboard-in-the-womb origin story. She joined the US Army in the late '90s, automated her way out of manual password resets, and went on to become VP of Product Engineering at GitHub before taking the CTO seat at Netlify. She joins Tobi to make the case that "writing code is no longer the job", an argument from her own New Stack article that lit up Hacker News, and one she doesn't back away from here. The conversation explores why trust in AI agents may eventually become automatic, the same way our trust in cars we can't repair ourselves already has. Dana explains why Netlify is designing for "agent experience" alongside developer experience, and why the engineer's role is shifting from writing every line of code to defining architecture, guardrails, reliability, and safe user experiences. CTOs will walk away with a sharper way to think about where human judgment still matters versus where it's already been commoditized, including the tension between speed and control, whether developers risk becoming the bottleneck, and why the real constraint may be moving from "can we build it?" to "does anyone actually want it?" What's covered: - Dana's path from the US Army to VP of Engineering at GitHub to CTO of Netlify - Why she argues "writing code is no longer the job" and the Hacker News backlash - The self-driving car analogy for trusting AI agents - What "agent experience" means and why Netlify designed for it - Craftsmanship, control, and the shift from writing code to defining guardrails - Whether developers risk becoming the bottleneck in the agentic era - Why the constraint is moving from "can we build it" to "does anyone want it"

PHP Podcast – August 13, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Eric and John reunite after weeks apart to talk Laracon in Boston, more diverse voices coming to this time slot, CPX finally giving PHP an npx, a stripped-down PHPStorm Light, and PHP Tek’s extended CFP. Stepping Back to Make Room for More Voices Eric and John open by explaining a shift in the show: they’re not disappearing, but they’re stepping back a little so more people from the PHP Architect team can take the mic. As John put it, the goal is “more diverse voices of the community,” and folks like Joe, Sarah, and Holly have been stepping into this time slot. Eric and John have committed to appearing at least once a month, since they have the most holistic view of what’s happening across the company. When they’re on, expect the “inside baseball” episodes — the behind-the-scenes look at what PHP Architect is up to. The rest of the time, this slot will keep going with other hosts, so the show never goes dark. They also reminded listeners there’s both a live stream and an audio RSS feed. Some folks apparently only recently discovered the audio version, while longtime audio listeners never realize the show streams live. Either way, head to phparch.com, click on podcasts, and you’ll find every way to subscribe. Eric’s Laracon Boston Recap Eric attended Laracon in Boston and, as always, has a love/hate relationship with it. On the plus side, it’s where he catches up with a lot of friends, and the talks were solid — Pauline Voss gave a great presentation on JJ (Jujutsu) and atomic commits, and Nuno showed off Pest 5. Eric noted the framework itself is moving much slower now, which is actually a good thing for anyone running a business on it, even if it makes the conference less essential-viewing than it once was. The venue was industrial and good-looking with a fantastic stage setup, but seating was a genuine problem this year. Eric arrived late to Nuno’s talk and there was nowhere to sit; the team scrambled to bring in more chairs. When it rained on day two, they ran out again. Despite that, staying in the same hotel as folks like Eric Barnes, TJ, Jake Bennett, and Michael Dorinda made for the kind of hallway-and-breakfast camaraderie he values most. Eric also hit the social events he usually skips — he sat out dodgeball (bad knees, slip-on shoes, and being a big target), but went to the Laracon Prom, which required an RSVP and an approved request. It turned out to be way cooler than expected, with people fully decked out, DJs, and an after-party plus a VIP dinner where Laravel’s marketing team worked the room. He also caught up with folks like Matthew Weier O’Phinney of Zend/Perforce and had a chat with Taylor. Running the Laravel Magazine Site and Taylor’s Blessing Eric shared that PHP Architect is now running the Laravel Magazine website, which previously belonged to Marijn (Marion) Pop. He’s been publishing tutorials, keeping things current, and making changes to the site he’s proud of. The articles are short, quick reads — and one of the Laravel wrap-up pieces mirrors the same article on the PHP Architect site. At the after-party dinner, Eric took the opportunity to run the name past Taylor directly, since he wasn’t sure the original owner had ever gotten official approval to use the Laravel name for a magazine. Taylor’s response was essentially “that’s fine, don’t worry about it” — so Laravel Magazine lives on. Eric even set up a newsletter signup, though he admits he’s not sure yet whether he’ll actually send a newsletter. CPX — A PHP-World npx One of Eric’s favorite discoveries from Laracon was CPX, essentially the PHP equivalent of npx. Just as npx lets you run JavaScript packages without installing them into a specific project, CPX lets you run tools without a global composer install or a per-project dependency. Eric already swapped his global PHP CS Fixer and Laravel Pint setup over to CPX aliases, so he now always runs the latest version without dependency headaches. John pushed back a bit, pointing out that tools like PHP unit and Rector usually live in your vendor directory anyway because your CI pipeline depends on them. Eric agreed that’s a valid workflow, but framed CPX as ideal for the occasional-use tools and for lowering the barrier for people outside the PHP world who want to dip in without fully committing. Chat chimed in with Rector as a great CPX use case, and they walked through examples like spinning up a fresh Laravel app. Laravel LSP and PHP Storm Light Eric was genuinely excited that Laravel now has its own Language Server Protocol. Most IDEs had already built their own Laravel-aware workarounds, but for Eim’s Neovim setup, the LSP finally makes things like jumping from a route to the view it points to work correctly — something PHP Storm had solved long ago but Vim hadn’t. He also spotted something called PHP Storm Light at the JetBrains booth: a trimmed-down, experimental build with faster startup, lower memory, and fewer features. It’s available through the Toolbox app as an EAP, so it’s free and explicitly experimental. John, who’d been hitting memory limits in regular PHP Storm, decided to install it on the spot, and Joe mentioned using it for one-off file edits — sparking a conversation about whether it fills the gap left by JetBrains’ old standalone editor. PHP Tek CFP Extended + Ticket Options John announced that the PHP Tek call for speakers has been extended through October 31st. The team experimented with opening the CFP very early this year to help attendees whose fiscal-year approvals depend on a locked schedule, but the community felt it was too early to know what would be relevant next April. So they extended the window and made cfp.phptek.io point straight to the call for presenters (thanks to a suggestion from A. Woods). On tickets, they’ve broken out a bundle that includes hotel nights so attendees can hand their boss a single lump-sum figure (airfare not included). There are also food-and-beverage-only tickets for partners and kids, single-day track options, and dedicated days for Laravel, JavaScript, and DevOps — one track each, with the other two tracks running the usual PHP Tek content. John flagged a possible issue with DevOps being the default CFP track, since it’s pulling in a flood of generic, seemingly AI-submitted talks he’ll need to sort through. Links from the show: PHP Tek — CFP extended through October 31, conference + hotel bundle available PHP Tek Call for Presenters OurCVEs — watch your repos and servers for CVEs Host: Eric Van Johnson X: @shocm Mastodon: @eric@phparch.social Bluesky: @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @eric John Congdon X: @johncongdon Mastodon: @john@phparch.social Bluesky: @johncongdon.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @john Streams: Youtube Channel Twitch Connect & Hire PHP Architect Website Twitter/X Mastodon Hire PHP Developers Looking to hire PHP developers? Email support@phparch.com – Eric, John, and the team are available for consulting, team augmentation, direction, code review, and even mobile development work. Partner This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners Displace Infrastructure Management, Simplified Automate Kubernetes deployments across any cloud provider or bare metal with a single command. Deploy, manage, and scale your infrastructure with ease. https://displace.tech/ OurCVEs Your security posture, on autopilot with OurCVEs CodeRabbit Cut code review time & bugs in half instantly with CodeRabbit. PHP Architect Consulting Your PHP codebase deserves a partner, not a contractor PHP Architect provides long-term technical partnerships for organizations that need senior-level PHP expertise that you can depend on. https://www.phparch.com/consulting/ Music Provided by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Join Us Live Next Week Youtube Channel Got feedback? Join us on Discord at discord.phparch.com The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.13 appeared first on PHP Architect.

Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsidian for persistent agent memory to combat context bloat, the critical importance of secure sandboxing practices, and the strategic use of parallel verification to ensure your agents are performing... Read more »

Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsidian for persistent agent memory to combat context bloat, the critical importance of secure sandboxing practices, and the strategic use of parallel verification to ensure your agents are performing... Read more »

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4ggpO8h Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter, a monthly roundup of the patterns and technologies senior practitioners are working through, with the news and lessons from people doing the work: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ Online Certification Programs: 5-week online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Programs now cover software architecture, AI engineering, and organizational architecture. Each week you join a four-hour live session with a confidential peer group of practitioners from other companies, apply frameworks from QCon talks to the decisions you're making at work, and earn an InfoQ certification. You leave with new approaches, or confirmation that the calls you're already making are the right ones. Learn more: https://certification.qconferences.com/ Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20, 2026) https://qconsf.com/ QCon London 2027 (April 13-16, 2027) https://qconlondon.com/ The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly conversations with senior software leaders about how they build systems and teams, including what they'd do differently. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: The InfoQ Podcast: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ: Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq X: https://x.com/InfoQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/infoq Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/infoq.com Write for InfoQ: Share what you've learned building software with a community of senior practitioners, and get your work in front of the people who read InfoQ. https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsidian for persistent agent memory to combat context bloat, the critical importance of secure sandboxing practices, and the strategic use of parallel verification to ensure your agents are performing... Read more »

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Salesforce DevOps doesn't have to be difficult. Patrick Müeller joins Jack on DevOps Diaries to discuss why.They get into why implementing a Salesforce DevOps tool is the easy part compared to getting a whole team on board, why admins are understandably terrified of version control and Salesforce metadata, and how feature flags and smaller releases stop users from feeling overwhelmed by change. They also talk through using AI, including Gearset's org intelligence, to make sense of a Salesforce org that's a decade or more old.Tune in to hear Patrick's refreshingly unfussy advice for anyone just starting their DevOps journey.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockHow to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costsAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scaleRuntime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Connect Service Quota MonitorEnforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon BedrockReintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress ConnectivityAWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent ExtensionsIntroducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agentsAWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflowsCaching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scaleAccess Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS BackupTwelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI toolingFrom weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

Jose Martinez, Global Chief Data Officer at Coca-Cola FEMSA, says customers don't experience an AI system's mistake as a data problem — they experience it as a company that doesn't know them. Recorded live at Ai4 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, he and Greg Kihlström get into what has to be true underneath before AI systems can act on your data at all.A data foundation AI can act on is a different thing from one that produces reports. Martinez on what actually separates the two, and why a company can have working dashboards and still not have the foundation an automated decision requires.Across many markets and millions of points of sale, consistency is the constraint — not speed. Agility isn't really about moving faster; it's being able to change repeatedly without the company starting to contradict itself. Martinez on what keeps decisions consistent as more of them get automated.Foundational data work has to be justified without a campaign-shaped payoff. How to make the case internally when the return doesn't show up as a lift number, and what enterprise leaders can use instead.About Jose MartinezJose De Jesus Martinez Camara, MS, PMP, is an innovative executive currently serving as the Global Chief Data Officer at Coca-Cola FEMSA. Previously, he served as the Americas Head of Data & Analytics at Nissan North America for Finance, with a dual track record as well as Chief Information Officer.With over 20 years of experience driving organizational excellence, Jose specializes in managing complex IT portfolios and commercializing technology products across the consumer goods, automotive, finance, entertainment, and consultancy sectors. He is a visionary professional known for aligning technology initiatives with long-term business objectives and fostering Agile and DevOps cultures.In his current global role at Coca-Cola FEMSA, he leads the enterprise data strategy, governance, and advanced analytics capabilities to drive digital transformation and value creation at scale. Prior to this, as Americas Head of Data & Analytics for Nissan Finance, Jose oversaw the data landscape across Mexico, Canada, and the United States, ensuring strategic alignment with corporate needs. Jose Martinez on LinkedIn---------- Resources ----------Coca-Cola FEMSAThe Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems.We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save!Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit!Chaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose.Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off.Enjoyed the show? Tell us more at and give us a rating so others can find the show.Connect with Greg on LinkedInDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more.Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology.The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Ethan and Holly continue their conversation around Wi-Fi. They go deeper into the benefits of Wi-Fi 7, look at what's coming in Wi-Fi 8, and cover the differences among Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), and Multi-Link Operation (MLO). AdSpot Sponsor: Megaport If you're supporting cloud projects, managing growing... Read more »

Harness engineering is still a new concept, but already we've noticed a challenge being consistently faced by technology leaders: how can a harness be used at scale across an organization to ensure consistency and controllability without undermining autonomy? To some extent it's a discussion that's reminiscent of platform engineering and, before that, DevOps, but, given the nature of AI agents, it's also unique to this particular moment. On this episode of the Technology Podcast, host Ken Mugrage is joined by guests Thomas Squeo (Chief Technology Officer and Head of Advisory for the Americas) and Matt Kamelman (Innovation Choreographer) to explore why it's so important to scale harnesses effectively and the steps and processes that will allow you to do just that. Thomas and Matt recently wrote an article outlining how organizations should think about what they call 'enterprise harness engineering'; here, they unpack their ideas and explore what's required of engineering leaders and their teams. Read Thomas' and Matt's article: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/operating-system-enterprise-ai

William Collins is joined by guest co-host Eric Chou as well as Network Automation Forum founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann to discuss how their community emerged from a simple question: Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? They discuss the growth of AutoCon and how its practitioner-focused, vendor-neutral approach has fostered... Read more »

William Collins is joined by guest co-host Eric Chou as well as Network Automation Forum founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann to discuss how their community emerged from a simple question: Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? They discuss the growth of AutoCon and how its practitioner-focused, vendor-neutral approach has fostered... Read more »

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 3rd, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logsAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GAAWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWSAWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual InterfacesAWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directoryAWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit GatewayIAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilitiesAmazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughputAccelerate Spark on EMR Serverless with larger workers and shuffle-optimized disksInstalling and updating the AWS CLI with single-line commandsDeploying Kimi K3 on AWSHow Amazon CloudFront delivered traffic for the FIFA World Cup 2026Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacksAWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the right key management solutionAWS Shield Advanced is embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group: What changes and how to prepareSecure your npm and pip package updates in Amazon LinuxAWS security bulletins: patching the patch

Richard Luna grew up in New York, never living more than 35 from where he grew up. He is a self proclaimed super nerd, and has been one since he was 13 - at which point, he started coding on an HP calculator. He's always been fascinated to know how things work, and how patterns repeat - which he has observed in the industry throughout the years. Outside of tech, he has 2 kids, one of which is in the business with him. He's an avid cyclist, traveling on average, 120 miles a week.Richard has been a life long technologist, doing everything from desktops, to coding, to hosting. When he and his team saw the limits of what hosting can do, they dove into developer operations (DevOps), and found where they could add the most value - through SaaS infrastructure.This is the creation story of Protected Harbor.SponsorsUnblockedTECH DomainsMezmoBraingrid.aiLinkshttps://protectedharbor.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardluna/Timestamps0:01 Teaser on solving complex database report bottlenecks beyond standard SQL servers0:47 Show intro and setting the stage for application-aware infrastructure1:32 Host intro: How Richard Luna established application-aware infrastructure1:49 Guest introduction: Richard Luna's background, coding at age 13, and cycling 120 miles a week2:21 The career path from desktops, coding, and traditional web hosting to DevOps and SaaS infrastructure2:41 Origin story: The creation of Protected Harbor2:48 Defining application-aware infrastructure and why traditional hosting reaches a hard ceiling4:10 Why "infinite compute" fails when underlying database architecture and queries are broken6:05 Moving beyond basic server ping tests to deep application transaction monitoring8:30 The case for "boring" IT: Prioritizing stability, predictability, and uptime over hype11:15 Strategic trade-offs in hybrid cloud setup and managing hardware accountability14:00 Aligning MSP incentives with client business outcomes and application performance17:30 Common pitfalls in legacy system cloud migrations21:00 The role of operational discipline in modern cybersecurity and IT governance27:00 Where managed infrastructure services are heading and closing thoughtsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What if your biggest CX innovation is also your biggest source of customer churn?Agility requires a clear-eyed view of both the promise and the peril of new technologies. It's the ability to embrace innovation like AI not just for efficiency, but with a rigorous focus on the customer outcomes that build long-term value.Today, we're going to talk about the delicate balance of implementing AI in the customer experience. Specifically, we'll explore the rise of sophisticated, agentic AI voice bots, and the critical "dealbreakers" that cause customers to abandon interactions and, potentially, your brand altogether.To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Sushil Kumar, CEO at Cyara.About Sushil KumarSushil leads Cyara's strategy and growth with a vision to redefine how enterprises build trustworthy, AI-driven customer experiences. A builder at heart, he has spent his career creating platforms that change how software is engineered, validated, and delivered. His focus is helping global organizations achieve new levels of reliability, speed, and customer trust. Before joining Cyara, Sushil was the co-founder and CEO of RelicX.ai, a generative AI test automation pioneer acquired by Harness. He previously led major product and business organizations at Oracle, CA Technologies, and Broadcom, where he built and scaled category-defining AI, DevOps, and cloud solutions adopted by thousands of enterprises worldwide. With more than 25 years of experience leading high-growth teams and multi-hundred-million-dollar product lines, Sushil is known for blending deep technical insight with a pragmatic, product-first approach to leadership. His work centers on transforming how modern software and customer experiences are created, making them more resilient, more intelligent, and more human. Sushil holds a Bachelor of Technology from BIT Sindri and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Sushil Kumar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushil-kumar-343780/---------- Resources ---------- Cyara: cyara.comThe Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://aglbrnd.co/r/2868abd8085a9703We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save! https://aglbrnd.co/r/7fe458ced0f04658Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit! Learn more: https://advertalize.com/r/491818c79fb1873fChaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose. Learn more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/60a7299222a7bcf1Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off. Learn more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/93531742a7625a20Enjoyed the show? Tell us more at and give us a rating so others can find the show at: https://aglbrnd.co/r/faaed112fc9887f3Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstromDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/35ded3ccfb6716baCheck out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.comThe Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, several members of our Packet Pushers podcast team assemble to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state... Read more »

Today, several members of our Packet Pushers podcast team assemble to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state... Read more »

Ben Rieger is the head of DevOps, Security, and IT at Mend.io. In this episode, he joins host Scott Schober to discuss how to secure the build pipeline without slowing delivery. Securing The Build is brought to you by Mend.io, the leading application security solution, helping organizations reduce application risk efficiently. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://mend.io.

As enterprises integrate greater levels of AI into their operational workflows, many are concerned about the effectiveness and accuracy of the decisions with which it's being entrusted. Mike Fratto joins host Eric Hanselman to talk about his recent research into the ways in which observability can provide greater context to AI systems and administrative teams. Data is the raw material from which AI value is created and a lack of solid operational data will mean that management systems won't have a complete perspective. Observability platforms have been expanding to collect and correlate a broader range of data and they can be particularly useful, if they're integrated well. Observability data can also assist in building confidence in automation and support automation efforts by creating scripts and validating control decisions. It can be a huge help to staff to digest and make sense of existing run books and processes and guide decisions in the event of failures. When novel incidents occur, being able to rule out certain areas can be just as powerful as finding the root cause. No, the network isn't always the cause of the outage… More S&P Global Content: Next in Tech | Ep. 271: AI Networking Next in Tech | Ep. 247: Security and Observability For S&P Global subscribers: Updating processes and building trust are key to full operational autonomy – Highlights from VotE: DevOps Observability Market Monitor & Forecast Agent orchestration and observability go hand in hand: The case for governance in motion Host/Author: Eric Hanselman Guest: Mike Fratto Producer/Editor: Dylan Scheible Published With Assistance From: Feranmi Adeoshun and Sophie Carr

AWS Morning Brief for the week of July 26th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibilityAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspaceAmazon SES introduces pricing plansAWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routingAWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organizationAWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferencesAWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridgeJVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWSConnection pooling strategies in Amazon Aurora DSQLCustom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devicesThermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulatorUnlocking data residency use cases with Amazon S3 in AWS Local ZonesAWS Security Bulletins: New Tools, Ancient Failures

Have you ever wondered how data actually travels through a Wi-Fi network? Holly and Ethan break down the fundamentals of wireless networking, including radio frequencies and channel planning. They also address the complexities of roaming, how the Wi-Fi space has changed over the years, and share advice on how to design and maintain a home... Read more »

What if your MCP server shipped with its own manual? Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins William and Eyvonne to break down the Skills Over MCP working group effort, which delivers Agent Skills through MCP’s existing resources primitive (think voice over IP, not skills versus MCP). Angie shares her... Read more »

In this sponsored episode, Jonah Kowall from Spacelift joins the show to unpack the findings of the 2026 Infrastructure Automation Report. The discussion covers the “governance paradox”, where organizations have confidence in their AI oversight despite a lack of formal policies. Ned and Jonah provide actionable insights on bridging the gap between automation and the... Read more »