Episodes 676
Avg. Duration 35m
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Apple Rating 4.7 (92)
Since Mar 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.

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The Appalachian Cloud Trail: Hiking, Cloud Economics, and Finding Perspective

Jun 11, 2026 33m Transcript

What happens when two cloud economists leave AWS  behind and spend six days hiking 60 miles on the Appalachian Trail? Corey Quinn sits down with Caleb Hurd to share stories from the trail, including…

Coding Agents, Chaos, and the Future of Dev Work with Dexter Horthy

May 28, 2026 32m Transcript

In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-founder of Human Layer, to unpack what engineers are getting wrong about AI, especially when it comes to coding agents.From the…

The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek

May 14, 2026 30m Transcript

In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to explore the next evolution of DevOps.After two decades of building systems to reduce operational pain, David…

Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas

Apr 30, 2026 29m Transcript

AI agents are moving fast,  but the infrastructure behind them is still catching up. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Paper Compute CEO Brian “B Dougie” Douglas…

The Power of Saying No: Growing by Narrowing Your Focus with Corey Quinn

Apr 16, 2026 28m Transcript

What happens when you stop trying to serve everyone, and start focusing on the right customers?In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Corey Quinn (yes, really) to talk about specialization,…

Build vs Buy: The Hidden Costs of “Just Building It” with Ahmed Bebars

Apr 02, 2026 42m Transcript

Just because you can build it doesn’t mean you should. In this episode, Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer at The New York Times, joins Corey Quinn to talk about real-world cloud decisions, Kubernetes…

FinOps, AI, and the Cost of Cloud Chaos with J.R. Storment

Mar 19, 2026 47m Transcript

What happens when cloud economics meets the messy reality of business, AI, and human behavior?Corey and J.R. Storment unpack why cloud cost management is less about math and more about psychology,…

Everything Is a Graph (Even Your Dad Jokes) with Roi Lipman

Mar 05, 2026 38m Transcript

In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, host Corey Quinn sits down with Roi Lipman, CTO and co-founder of Falco DB, to unpack the evolving role of graph databases in a world overflowing with data…

AI, Authenticity, and the Future of Podcasting with Chris Hill

Feb 19, 2026 27m Transcript

This week on Screaming in the Cloud, Corey sits down with Chris Hill, CEO of Humble Pod, to talk about the messy, nuanced reality of AI in media. From secretly cloning Corey’s voice for an ad using…

Coding Agents and the Inevitable AI Bubble with Eric Anderson

Feb 12, 2026 28m Transcript

Eric Anderson, partner at VC firm Scale, talks about why coding agents changed software forever and why the AI bubble can't be avoided. Eric worked on Spot Instances at AWS and data products at…

Fixing Shadow AI and Surviving re:Invent with Chase Douglas

Feb 05, 2026 32m Transcript

Chase Douglas, CEO at Archodex, talks about AI security problems and why re:Invent has become a nightmare. Chase helps companies capture every AI interaction so they don't get in trouble with…

Building Software While Keeping Humans in Charge

Jan 29, 2026 30m Transcript

Alyss Noland, who works on Cloud Dev Ecosystem at Nvidia, is back on the show to talk about building software with AI when you're not a real developer. Alyss runs a program that gives AI startups…

How Homebrew Became Mac's Package Manager with Mike McQuaid

Jan 27, 2026 40m Transcript

Mike McQuaid, Project Leader of Homebrew, joins Corey Quinn to share how a package manager conceived in a London pub became essential for 10 million Mac users. Homebrew lets you install software with…

Is It Broken Everywhere or Just for Me with Omri Sass

Jan 22, 2026 31m Transcript

When your website stops working at 3 AM, you need to answer one question fast: Is it my code or is a big cloud provider having problems? Omri Sass from Datadog explains updog.ai, a tool that monitors…

Solving the 20-Year S3 File System Problem with Hunter Leath

Jan 20, 2026 31m Transcript

Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs need hard drives, but…

Building Systems That Work Even When Everything Breaks with Ben Hartshorne

Jan 15, 2026 36m Transcript

When AWS has a major outage, what actually happens behind the scenes? Ben Hartshorne, a principal engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey Quinn to discuss a recent AWS outage and how they kept customer…

Engineering Around Extreme S3 Scale with R. Tyler Croy

Jan 13, 2026 33m Transcript

R. Tyler Croy, a principal engineer at Scribd, joins Corey Quinn to explain what happens when simple tasks cost $100,000. Checking if files are damaged? $100K. Using newer S3 tools? Way too…

Avery Pennarun on Tailscale's Evolution: From Mesh VPN to AI Security Gateway

Jan 08, 2026 44m Transcript

Corey Quinn sits down with Avery Pennarun, co-founder and CEO of Tailscale, for a deep dive into how the company is reinventing networking for the modern era. From finally making VPNs behave the way…

How Grokability Built a Profitable Open Source Business with Jeremy Price

Jan 06, 2026 30m Transcript

Most open source companies do the same thing. They take investor money, lock their best features behind paywalls, sell the company, and disappoint everyone. Grokability did something different.Jeremy…

The AI Productivity Gap with Keith Townsend

Dec 11, 2025 41m Transcript

Corey Quinn reconnects with Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor, for a candid conversation about the massive gap between AI hype and enterprise reality. Keith shares why a biopharma company…

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