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ActiveState has been working on managing open source dependencies and builds for over 20 years. They take an 'SBOM-first' approach, generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) first before building applications, providing visibility into dependencies. Active State's platform can discover open source components used across an organization, prioritize vulnerabilities, and provide intelligent remediation recommendations. Tune in as Scott Robertson, CTO, and Pete Garcin, Senior Director of Product at ActiveState talk about all things open source security.

Florian Forster, CEO & Co-Founder, Zitadel, joins us in this episode to discuss the challenges of authentication in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments, such as managing token expiration, revocation, and scalability. Forster highlights some common anti-patterns in authentication, like cramming too much data into access tokens and running expensive operations against the identity infrastructure. He shares his vision for the future of authentication, including consolidation with authorization solutions and providing analytical capabilities on identity data. Tune into this episode for a deep dive into authentication.

Vasil Kaftandzhiev and Pete Wall of Grafana Labs join us today to talk about all things Kubernetes observability. Grafana aims to make observability easy by providing tools to get started easily, blend Kubernetes best practices with Grafana Cloud features, and build custom dashboards for precise Kubernetes needs. Grafana offers integrations with various databases, services, and tools out-of-the-box, and supports open telemetry for custom integrations.

Rotem Tamir, CTO, Ariga, joins us today to talk about Atlas, a database-schema-as-code tool that takes a declarative approach to managing database schemas. It enables developers to define the desired state of the schema, and Atlas then handles the planning, verification, and deployment of changes. This way, changes to the schema are automatically planned, verified, and deployed through a GitHub action. Atlas helps platform engineers standardize schema management across different development stacks and provides a control plane for monitoring and governance. Listen to know all about a modern approach to database schema management.

SLOs are metrics that specify measurable performance goals for a service. Brian Singer, Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer, Nobl9, joins us to talk about all things SLOs. Nobl9 sits on top of existing telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces) and makes it easy to define, manage, and use SLOs within an organization. Tune in to find out how Nobl9 shows you which services have run out of error budget, alerts on SLO violations, and how to define SLOs using Kubernetes-style YAML configuration.

Alois Reitbauer, Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace joins us to talk about his 17-year journey at Dynatrace, from being employee #30 to the company's growth to around 5,000 employees. He describes 3 types of AI: predictive AI for anomaly detection, causal AI for root cause analysis, and generative AI for automation and remediation. He highlights Dynatrace's focus on different user roles, including developers, SREs, DevOps teams, security teams, and business users. Tune in for this interesting chat on cloud-native observability as it stands today.

Rackspace has been around for 25 years and has evolved from managed hosting to cloud services like OpenStack and Kubernetes. Today, Rackspace offers a managed Kubernetes platform that provides initial setup, architecture guidance, operations, and optional transfer of ownership to the customer. They see Kubernetes and OpenStack as complementary technologies, with OpenStack providing native multi-tenancy and resource segregation capabilities. Rackspace has recently introduced Spot, a market-driven compute platform where customers bid for resources. Tune in to find out what's the latest and greatest from Rackspace.

Itiel Shwartz, Co-Founder & CTO, Komodor, joins us to talk about the product they are building that simplifies Kubernetes for Dev & Ops teams. It caters to both experienced and novice users. Their KlaudiaAI feature is able to quickly pull insights on why deployments fail, which security certificates need attention and a lot more. Listen in to see what an innovative Kubernetes management platform looks like.

The problem with traditional load testing is that it's often done in staging environments, or in production simulations. That yields inaccurate results, and springs surprises later. Artillery offers the ability to load test in actual production environments. They do this in a safe, scalable, and cloud-native way. Hassy Veldstra - Founder & CEO, Artillery, joins us to talk about the open source project and startup he's created around this very idea.

WireGuard is a popular open source VPN tunnel solution. It has done much to improve traditional VPNs. Netmaker builds on top of this foundation to bring state-of-the-art zero-trust capabilities to VPN. For any business that needs remote access to resources for its people, devices, and software, VPN is not outdated, but very much alive and well with the innovative approach Netmaker takes.

Jay Khatri, Co-founder, CEO at Highlight.io joins us to talk about monitoring in a cloud-native world. As infrastructure gets abstracted away, application code has become the "new" foundation for monitoring. Highlight.io delivers a cohesive view of your application monitoring data that's easy to setup, and powerful at scale.

Lee Caswell, SVP of Product & Solutions at Nutanix joins us to talk about the possibilities with multicloud, and how Nutanix enables it. He talks about how Nutanix enables organizations to manage all their cloud locations, on-prem & edge from a single pane of glass. Nutanix's move tool lets you move apps from one location to another without having to refactor or rearchitect them. Features like snapshots, micro-segmentation, and ransomware protection ensure you stay secure despite the increasingly complex infrastructure. Listen in as Lee shares from his wealth of experience in storage and virtualization.

Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, joins us to talk about what's new at their startup. Their focus is still on enabling deployment velocity. They do this in a variety of ways such as enabling completely remote deployments, reducing container build times with smart builds, giving developers real-time feedback on test results, and deep insights into developer productivity. Berrelleza also touches on their work related to creating sandbox environments for AI workloads, and how it can save valuable GPU resources. Tune in to catch it all in this fast-paced episode.

S3 is the oldest and one-of the most widely-used cloud services of AWS. Yet, it can be cumbersome to scale, and secure. Cloudian is able to bring all the power and capabilities of S3 to your on-premise infrastructure. Glenn Haley, Head of Product at Cloudian joins us with the scoop about why S3 is essential for AI/ML workloads today, and how Cloudian is innovating in the space.

Penetration testing is notorious for being a very manual, labor-intensive effort. At the same time the cloud stack has only become more complex. Traditional penetration testing that relies on human talent is now outdated. Beagle Security is out to bring automation and intelligence to this space. Tune in to hear what Rejah Rehim, Co-Founder and CTO at Beagle Security, has to say about all of this.

Data has always been fundamental to how large organizations function on a day-to-day basis. However, much of data engineering is wasted on over-provisioned resources, legacy data stores, and overly complex queries. Chaos Genius has built a Data FinOps solutions that sits on top of Snowflake and Databricks to optimize them for cost and performance. Preeti Shrimal, Founder and CEO at Chaos Genius gives us the scoop on this episode.

Application security sometimes feels like a game of tug of war between developers and the security team. However, it need not be that way. Chris Lendsey of Mend.io talks about the need for a security champion in every organization. He also demos Mend's product that meets developer where they're at - GitHub - and centralizes all AppSec monitoring for SecOps teams.

Redis is aging, as is its single-threaded model to in-memory databases. It's time for more powerful, and performant multi-threaded alternatives - and that's exactly what DragonflyDB is. It's a drop-in replacement for Redis. Ari Shotland, VP of Engineering, Dragonfly, joins us to demo their solution, and give us the low down on all things in-memory databases.

In this episode Matthew LeRay, Co-founder CTO, Speedscale, joins us to talk about their approach to platform engineering. Speedscale does environment replication that simulates actual production environments without affecting performance. It gives you superpowers to go back in time and simulate traffic patterns accurately. You can spot bottlenecks, and drill down to the exact issue with precision. Listen in to learn about Speedscale's approach to platform engineering and environment replication.

Devtron simplifies software operations for both Dev & Ops teams. Serial entrepreneur Rajesh Razdan, Co-Founder at Devtron, joins us to talk about developer productivity challenges, and how his team solves them. He also opines on the importance of open source, and India's burgeoning tech startup space. 

Alex Oliver, Co-founder and CPO at Cerbos, joins us a second time to talk about what's new with Cerbos as their product hit GA recently. He comments on best practices to manage policies at scale, standardization in the authorization ecosystem, and his learnings as an entrepreneur launching a new product. You don't want to miss all the insights about authorization in this episode.

OpenLogic provides end-to-end support for OSS projects and LTS for discontinued ones. Every organization uses and depends on open source. However, with the ever changing open source landscape, tools get discontinued, don’t work with each other, and can wreak havoc. OpenLogic has seen it all with open source, and can help get your OSS projects on the right track. Whether it’s LTS for CentOS, Angular, Bootstrap, or middleware integration, OpenLogic does it all. Joe Carder, Enterprise Architect at OpenLogic talk about all things open source in this episode.

James Cabe, Director of Architecture Global Alliances at ZPE Systems, joins us for a fascinating conversation about how the worlds of software and hardware can be blended for powerful use cases. He talks about the idea of a resilience system for data centers and edge devices that ensures availability no matter what. Imagine running a data center without even touching it – that’s what Nodegrid makes possible.

Filip Verloy, Field CTO EMEA & APJ, Rubrik joins us to discuss the biggest threats to data security. He calls out ransomware 2.0, data exfiltration, and the leaking of credentials as the top threats facing data security. Rubrik is a platform that gives you all you need stay secure against these threats, including an AI bot named Ruby.

While the cloud makes it easy to run applications at scale, it comes with unique challenges that are different from on-premises infrastructure. Nicolas Ehrman, Product Marketing Manager at Wiz, joins us to talk about what’s new with container and Kubernetes security. He gives us an interesting tour of Wiz’s solution to these challenges.

Connecting the dots from his interest in music, to Android phones, to Linux, and Kubernetes, Andrew Rynhard, CTO at Sidero Labs, shares his journey to creating Talos Linux and founding Sidero Labs. He also talks about why it’s the best way to run Kubernetes on bare metal and edge infrastructure. Talos Linux gives you all the ease and power of the cloud without the high costs.

Have you ever had bill shock with AWS, or felt locked-in to Azure? Civo has noticed so many of these cases that they decided to build a cloud platform with zero lock-in. If you've considered moving away from AWS, or repatriating your cloud instances, Civo is a great alternative. It allows you to spin up a new Kubernetes cluster in 3 minutes flat. Listen in as Chad Crowell, Senior Platform Engineer at Civo tells us all about it. 

Rafay Systems was started to simplify Kubernetes, a challenge they've conquered. But their sights are beyond Kubernetes as they enable AI workloads and on-prem/non-Kubernetes workloads. Haseeb Budhani, CEO and Co-Founder, Rafay Systems, talks about their approach to building an end-to-end cloud PaaS solves real-world challenges for IT teams in large organizations. 

Ever thought your cloud spend is spiralling out of control, but there's nothing you can do about it? Fairwinds think you can not only reduce spend, but also improve automation and security policies all at the same time. Andy Suderman, CTO, Fairwinds joins us to talk about the many benefits of leveraging a solution like Fairwinds Insights.

Solo.io is for organizations overwhelmed with tying together Istio, Cilium, Envoy, API gateways, and other tooling. With a focus on service mesh and API gateway capabilities for Kubernetes, Solo.io features a star-studded team behind the product. Tom Callway, VP of Marketing, joins us to give us all the deets about Solo.io including its foray into platform engineering.

For early-stage startups, the sooner you find product-market fit, the better. Encore has built a product that enables early-stage startups to go beyond low-code solutions like Firebase and leverage the power of the cloud without the complexity. They focus on providing a super-productive local development experience and allowing complex deployments to the cloud. Join us as André Eriksson, Founder & CEO at Encore, gives us the low down on what productive platform engineering looks like.

With data breaches on the rise daily, every organization today needs an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). However, creating and maintaining one is extremely challenging because of the complexity of the cloud. Anchore has built a solution to enable automated, continuous compliance for cloud-native applications. Listen in as Neil Levine, VP of Product at Anchore gives us the scoop.

Gone are the days when hardware security was enough to secure the workloads running on a server. Today, the people who own the servers (the cloud vendors) and the people who run workloads on them (you) are not the same person. Anjuna empowers organization to take responsibility for their own cloud security by enabling confidential computing for any organization. Listen in as Steve Van Lare, VP of Engineering at Anjuna describes this for us.

Observability data can be voluminous, and riddled with false positives. Edge Delta has a realistic view of AI. David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect at Edge Delta, joins us to talk about how you can gain value from observability data with AI. Whether it's to find important but hidden error messages or build complex queries easily - Edge Delta is out to bolster observability using AI.

Did you know that 50% of IT budgets go to cloud spend, and up to 70% goes to wasted or unused cloud resources? Zesty is out to stop this waste. Maor Ezer, CMO & CSO, Zesty, joins us to talk about how cloud cost optimization and FinOps is not just about saving money, but about operational excellence & innovation. 

Too many new features to release, and too many fires to put out with each release. If this resonates with you, you'll want to listen to this episode with Ben Rometsch, Co-Founder & CEO of Flagsmith. Feature flagging is a great way to reduce the risk of new features breaking things in production. As a bonus, it helps you reduce and simplify your environments. 

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem at CNCF joins us to chat about the upcoming KubeCon EU 2024. He shares his views on the things he’s most looking forward to at the event, and how you can get the most out of it whether you’re attending for learning, job search, or just networking.

Kubernetes doesn't come with networking capabilities built-in. Thankfully, a tool like Calico is up to the task - securing every part of the networking stack. Calico takes a prevention-centric approach to network security. It prevents risks before they materialize. Leveraging eBPF, Calico Cloud offers a visual deep-dive into your network, and gives you a cluster security score on which to benchmark your security efforts. Tune in as Reza and Tomas tell us all about Calico Cloud.

Alex Olivier, Co-Founder & CPO, Cerbos joins us to talk about his newly launched product, Cerbos Hub. It's an authorization power tool that promises uncompromised performance, and state-of-the-art collaboration features. No more painful permissions - upgrade your authorization experience with the power of Cerbos Hub.

WSJ bestselling author, and DevOps pioneer, Gene Kim, joins us to talk about the key ideas behind his new book 'Wiring the winning organization.' He explains the 3 mechanisms from the book - Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification. He brings these concepts to life by applying them to the day-to-day functioning of IT and software organizations. Listen in to learn from a master, and go get the book to dive deeper.

Kubernetes is complex. But it doesn't need to be so. For some, Docker Swarm is a simpler alternative. For others, they just need a way to simplify Kubernetes so they don't need to write complex YAML config. If any of this resonates with you, you should check out Portainer - a container management solution that takes the pain out of Kubernetes. Neil Cresswell, CEO & Co-Founder, Portainer, gives us the scoop.

Security is usually an afterthought with Kubernetes. That's what happens when 'shift left'  goes wrong and developers are tasked with security responsibilities. Nirmata, instead, believes in a 'shift down' approach to security where security is baked into every step. Nirmata helps you better govern Kubernetes before an incident happens. Listen in as Jim Bugwadia explains how this all works.

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, CNCF, joins us to share his views on the AI/ML movement that is sweeping the technology space today. He takes us deeper than the software layer to the infrastructure and hardware layers and talks about the issues with them. He also share many useful resources for you to learn more and get started with open source AI/ML initiatives.

While many talk about how AI helps you get more out of your data, Orca Security believes AI should empower your SecOps team to do more – a small but significant difference. Ashley Ward, Principal Technical Evangelist, Orca Security, shows us how Orca Security is innovating in this new and uncharted space. Listen to learn all about the intersection between cybersecurity and generative AI.

The public cloud abstracts away the complexities of networking and infrastructure and provides a simple self-service experience. Data centers, however, have fallen behind and are still hard to manage. Enter, Netris, a product that helps you setup and manage every aspect of a VPC (virtual private cloud) just as you would the public cloud. Alex Saroyan, CEO/Co-founder of Netris, joins us to talk about all things VPC, and why every organization whether greenfield or brownfield needs to consider using a VPC.

Natan Yellin, CEO, Robusta joins us to talk about the hot topic on everyone’s mind today – platform engineering – and the challenge platform engineers face on a day-to-day basis. He suggests how Robusta’s approach to observability gives Prometheus superpowers and enables platform teams to do way more with less. Whether it’s reducing incident response times or cloud spend, Robusta has got you covered.

Authentication was solved long ago, but authorization is way more complex and is just reaching maturity with open source projects like Cerbos enabling authorization via policies and declarative config. Alex Olivier, part of the founding team at Cerbos, joins us to talk about how Cerbos can make authorization easy for your organization. They’ve just launched Cerbos Cloud and are inviting closed beta customers at the moment. Learn more about Cerbos and authorization for cloud-native applications in this episode of the Amazic podcast.

Platform engineering is a hot topic in the cloud-native space these days. Hearing it makes you feel like you need some sort of new platform that you don’t already have. Zohar Einy, CEO & Co-Founder, Port, believes you don’t need another internal platform, you already have it if you do CI/CD and have a DevOps pipeline. His solution is to augment your existing platform with a developer portal like Port. It’ll solve all your developer experience challenges. Listen in, and check out Port today.

Contrary to the ‘shared responsibility’ of the hyperscalers, Giant Swarm goes against the grain to build a product and service that truly manages Kubernetes for your organization. They have a dedicated team that acts as an extension of your internal platform team, or be your platform team if that’s what you’d like. Henning Lange, CEO of Giant Swarm joins us to talk bout his company’s unique story in a crowded space of ‘me too’ managed Kubernetes services. Tune in to hear from the founder of a completely bootstrapped and profitable startup that deserves every bit of your attention.

Poor developer experience slows down developers, delays product launches, and costs organizations money. Platform engineering has emerged as the solution to enabling a modern developer experience that is hassle-free, consistent, predictable, and just works. Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, joins us to talk about all things developer experience, platform engineering, and how Okteto is changing the way teams build and ship software. His advice is to focus on the 20% that makes your organization unique and adopt standardized practices and tooling that solves for the remaining 80%. Lots of wisdom and insight are packed into this conversation. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we did.