Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581 Show Links Signadot Free Trial Brex Case Study Signadot Documentation Overview Contact Arjun Iyer LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer Twitter: @arjuniyer_ SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.