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Episode 128: Animated Bedtime Stories, Telling Dummies What to Do, and Why Docker Lost, with Viktor Farcic

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Episode 127: The KubeCon Drone Demo, CFP Reviewing at Scale, and the Agentic AI Foundation, with Lin Sun

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Episode 126: DevOpsDays, Technical Storytelling, and Loading the Dishwasher, with Jason Yee

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Episode 125: Running D&D with AI, Determinism First, and Workflow ROI, with Michael Rishi Forrester

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Episode 124: The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross

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Episode 123: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis

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Episode 122: Hardened Runtimes, the CEO Job, and Raising as an All-Woman Founding Team, with Emily Long

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Episode 121: Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus

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Episode 120: Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse

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Episode 119: AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer

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Episode 118: AI Doesn’t Fix Bad DevOps: Lessons from 15 Years of DORA Data, with Nathen Harvey

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Episode 117: From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li

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Episode 116: The Octopus Organization, with Jana Werner

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Episode 115: The AI Tools Lab, conferences, devrel, with Jason Hand

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Episode 114: Whitney goes to KubeCon

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Episode 113: Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer

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Episode 112: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies

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Episode 111: The uncontrollable urge to click "publish," with Manton Reece

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Episode 110: Cows, Tech Careers, Working at Microsoft, and Even More About Cows, with Saad Ansari

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Episode 109: Everyday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah Foxwell

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Episode 108: Venture Capital, AI, and Horses, with Rachel Chalmers

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Episode 107: The business value of developer relations, devrel history, plus more stuff, with Mary Thengvall

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Episode 106: Communications Skills, Ultrarunning, and Whacky YouTube Thumbnails, with James Eastham

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Episode 105: Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life

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Episode 104: Exam Creation, Open Source, and Hospice Care, with AmyJune Hineline

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Episode 103: AI & Critical Thinking, Enterprise Marketing, and the Workplace, with Betty Junod

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Episode 102: The brilliant dummy in my pocket, with WhitneyGPT

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Episode 101: A Passion for Politics, with Taegan Goddard

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Episode 100: "I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza," startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff

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Episode 99: Catering to Startups, with Robert Reeves

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Episode 98: From OpenStack to Kubernetes, extreme transparency at GitLab, tech startup marketing, with Melissa Smolensky

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Episode 97: The Business and Ethics of Open Source, with Emily Omier

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Episode 96: Learning, teaching, tech certifications, and napkin culture in Singapore, with Mumshad Mannambeth

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Episode 95: Success in Tech, Content Creation, & Corporate Influence, with Hazel Weakly

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Episode 94: Adding more condiments to the 7 layer networking burrito, with Marino Wijay

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Episode 93: 10x People, AI Trends, and Career Management, with Richard Seroter

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Episode 92: What went wrong with PaaS, and many other topics with Brian Gracely

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Episode 91: Learning to learn, with Sasha Czarkowski

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Episode 90: Community management, event nightmares, and domestic Tupperware diplomacy, with Katie Greenley

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Episode 89: How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor Farcic

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Episode 88: Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser

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Episode 87: Platform Engineering, AI, and Community - Whitney's KubeCon NA 2024 Adventures

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Episode 86: Open Source Money Ethics, How Analysts use AI, What Even is an Industry Analyst, and Advanced Chicken Nugget Diplomacy, with Rachel Stephens

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Episode 85: Kubernetes Cost Controls and Washing Horse Blankets, with Phil Andrews

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Episode 84: Tech recruiting from both sides of the table, with Sidney Miller

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Episode 83: Whitney Lee

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Misaligned Incentives Episode 4: You get what you pay for - compensating tech staff is often done poorly

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Episode 3: Improvement requires fear, or, digital transformation by crisis and fear
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Episode 2: Outsourcing, SIs, and other "others"
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Misaligned Incentives Episode 1: Who forget to invite "The Business," to this kubernetes PoC?
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Episode 82: Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations

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Episode 81: Adam Jacob on saying Goodbye to OpenCore

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Episode 80: Jeff Meyerson on starting the Software Engineering Daily Podcast

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Episode 79: Version control, DevOps, Code Reviews, Semantic Merging, Spanish Startups, & Plastic SCM
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Episode 78: Umair Khan on AI Ops and Cloud Security

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Episode 77: Jake Moilanen on going from Employee to Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist
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Episode 76: Zane Rockenbaugh on being the Startup CTO

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Episode 75: Don't call me an "evangelist"

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Episode 74: Numbers. How do they work? Rachel Stephens

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Episode 73: Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management

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Episode 72: Chris Donaldson on Automation

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Episode 71: Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing

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Episode 70: Satish Kodukula on Product Management

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Episode 69: Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi

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Episode 68: Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell

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Episode 67: Javvad Malik on security & being an industry analyst

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Episode 66: Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter

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Episode 65: Walter Bodwell on Agile

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Episode 64: Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio

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Episode 63: JJ Asghar on DevOps, Compliance and Grilling

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Episode 62: Nancy Gohring on monitoring, observability, DevOps, & M&A

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Episode 61: Jon Collins on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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Episode 60: Sell-side financial analysts, & enterprise software pricing

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Episode 59: Fear of FANG

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Episode 58: Who is the CISO?

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Episode 57: VC Tech Predictions & Newsletters, Ben Evans edition

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Episode 56: The tech column/opinion piece

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Episode 55: The OpenStack Community Survey & Oceania Sales Motions

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Episode 54: The Corporate Podcast, & EBC’ing

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Episode 53: The Lone Wolf Analyst

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Episode 52: The Four

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Episode 51: The fluffy, leather chair interview, or, “Do you think the edge forces you to go hybrid?” or, there’s a lot of high-dollar farts in those chairs

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Episode 50: Just another kubernetes article

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Episode 49: Heptio’s funding press releases, or, “marriages, divorces, and births”

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Episode 41: Southbound cloud-native enterprise architecture

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Episode 48: Forrester’s CD-ish Wave

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Episode 40: Do people actually do DevOps? Or, the margarita/bloody mary continuum

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Episode 47: Kubernetes & container landscapes from Forrester & Gartner

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Episode 46: The full Chef burger, with a side of THE DIGITAL

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Episode 45: The PaaS Hype Cycle, 2017 edition

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Episode 39: “Microservices is interesting because most enterprises aren't doing it.”

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Episode 38: Coté’s whiskey theory & why The Economist is great

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Episode 44: A trillion IoT devices by 2035

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Episode 43: Not a [Very Good] DevOps Talk - Software Defined Talk Members Only White Paper Exegesis #2

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Episode 37: Cloud-native enterprise architecture, with Matt Curry & Andrew Clay Shafer

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Episode 42: PwC says you suck at THE DIGITAL - Software Defined Talk Members Only White Paper Exegesis #1

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Episode 36: North-bound Enterprise Architecture with Matt Walburn - that business/IT alignment dance

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Episode 35: You know me, never afraid to be a naive old white guy, or, learning from centuries of fighting over dumb shit

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Episode 34: Pipelines, you're gonna need 'em

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