Platform Engineering Podcast
Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver
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Continuous Integration at Agentic Velocity with CircleCI’s Rob Zuber
When code gets cheaper to produce, feedback becomes the limiting factor - CI, reviews, and the handoffs between tools can quietly slow everything down.Rob Zuber breaks down what platform engineers…
Durable Execution for Real‑World Failures with Temporal’s Cornelia Davis
A lot of infrastructure and automation fails for ordinary reasons: rate limits, flaky networks, partial permissions, long-running jobs, and retries that vanish when the process restarts. Durable…
You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
What happens when a non-deterministic AI system is asked to touch production telemetry or generate changes for an SRE pipeline? The cost of being “close enough” can be lost data, downtime, or a…
Green CI and Merge Queue Mastery with Trunk’s Eli Schleifer
When a flaky test can stall a merge queue, “just rerun CI” stops scaling fast.Cory talks with Trunk co-founder and CEO Eli Schleifer about the outer loop problems that show up as teams ship more code…
AI-Native Ops: Making AI Safe for Production with William Collins
What happens when your “coworker” can generate code and changes faster than your team can review them, and production still has to stay up?William Collins breaks down what AI-Native Ops looks like…
Infrastructure as Code's Hidden Problem with Pavlo Baron
Terraform drift, state wrangling, and a growing “tools for tools” stack are still daily work for many platform teams - despite a decade of DevOps talk and cloud maturity. Why does ops automation so…
Why Extend Went All-In on Serverless Platform Engineering
Billions of requests a month on AWS Lambda can cost less than a single engineer’s laptop budget, but only if the architecture and developer workflow are designed for it.Justin Masse, Senior Platform…
Observability in the AI Era with New Relic's Nic Benders
What happens when nobody wrote the code running in your production environment? As AI-generated software becomes standard practice, platform engineers face a new challenge: operating systems without…
Simplicity at Scale: Cleaning House for Platform Teams with Brian Childress
Why do so many “modern” platforms feel slow, fragile, and painful to work on?Platform engineer and fractional CTO Brian Childress joins Cory to discuss how over-engineering, resume‑driven…
Using Feature Flags to Tame Complexity with Mike Zorn
What if changing a single flag could save you from a failed migration, a broken API, or a late-night rollback?Join us as we dive into how feature flags become a practical tool for changing…
Policy as Code: Kyverno and Securing Kubernetes at Scale with Jim Bugwadia
Most Kubernetes security breaches don't come from zero-day exploits - they come from misconfigurations. While your team runs scanners and reviews reports, containers are already running as root,…
Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower - Beyond Pipelines: Infrastructure As Data
Is your Git repo really the source of truth for infrastructure - or just a suggestion?Guest host Kelsey Hightower sits down with Cory O’Daniel to unpack why many teams hit dead ends with CI/CD for…
Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower - Are CI/CD and GitOps Just Making Things Harder?
What if your production environment had a live, trustworthy blueprint you could zoom in and out of on demand?Kelsey Hightower guest-hosts a candid conversation with Cory about why CI/CD pipelines and…
Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough
Ever wonder why strong Terraform modules still lead to long review queues and fragile pipelines? From hand-built scripts and early data center migrations to cloud sprawl and Kubernetes, configuration…
How to Ship Faster with Feature Flags: Insights from Unleash
Still freezing code before Black Friday and hoping nothing breaks? Feature flags can help you ship smaller, safer changes continuously—without the “big bang” risk or painful rollbacks.Cory O’Daniel…
GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis
**UPDATE** - Apollo GraphQL has kindly offered us a few free passes to join them at the GraphQL Summit in San Francisco, October 6-8, 2025. If you are interested in going, the code is:…
Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview with Mike Mroczka
Ever wondered how many “perfect” candidates simply learned the test—or how many great engineers get filtered out by bad interview design? Mike Mroczka, interview coach and ex-Googler, shares what…
From React to Dagster: Pete Hunt on Data, Infra, and AI-Ready Platforms
Is Postgres actually a better message queue than Kafka? This provocative question is just one of many insights Pete Hunt shares in this conversation about data orchestration, platform engineering,…
Building Better Platforms with Dapr: Abstractions, Portability, and Durable Systems with Mark Fussell
Cloud lock-in isn't just about where your data lives—it's about how deeply cloud-specific code permeates your applications. Mark Fussell, co-creator of Dapr and CEO of Diagrid, joins Cory O'Daniel to…
What CVEs Did for Security, CREs Are Doing for Reliability
Did you know that software engineers often "learn things the hard way" because they lack a standardized system to share knowledge about reliability issues? While security professionals have CVEs to…
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