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The SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastInside Modern Infra: Kerim Satirli on Terraform, Vault Radar & AI-Safe WorkflowsIn this episode, Kerim Satirli, Senior Developer Advocate II at IBM, who walks us through the major developments happening across the HashiCorp ecosystem since we last spoke. Kerim breaks down key updates such as Terraform Stacks, Actions, Search, and Infragraph, along with the debut of Vault Radar, which scans codebases and collaboration tools to uncover leaked or unmanaged secrets before they become incidents. He also reflects on industry trends—from the surge of MCP-powered AI agents to the growing urgency around supply-chain security highlighted by the ongoing Shi Hulud NPM attack, offering a clear view of how modern infrastructure an...
2025-12-1038 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastShaping the Future of Documentation: Taylor Dolezal on OSS, Knowledge & Dosu.devIn this episode, Taylor Dolezal, Head of Open Source at Dosu.dev, for a thoughtful deep dive into the evolving world of documentation and knowledge management. Taylor shares his journey from the CNCF to Dosu.dev, why he returned to his open-source roots, and how Dosu is reimagining documentation as a living, dynamic system. We discuss the fragmentation of knowledge across tools, AI’s role in documentation, and the emerging need for context-aware, fact-driven docs tailored to each user. Taylor also walks us through Dosu.dev’s unique approach—bringing structured facts, citations, and automation into docs to help mainta...
2025-12-1054 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastRedefining Enterprise Storage with InfinidatIn this episode, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, shares how the company is transforming enterprise storage with a blend of performance, resilience, and simplicity. From the power of InfiniSafe’s cyber-storage capabilities to the intelligence behind InfiniVerse and AI-driven automation, Eric explains how Infinidat delivers unmatched reliability and scalability while tackling modern IT challenges like skill shortages and data protection.
2025-11-2550 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastReimagining Observability How Splunk is Powering the Future with OpenTelemetryIn this episode, Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk, shares how the company is driving the next wave of innovation in observability through OpenTelemetry.Steve dives into how open standards are eliminating vendor lock-in, streamlining telemetry data, and delivering unified visibility across today’s cloud-native environments. He discusses best practices for scalable data pipelines, auto-instrumentation, and semantic conventions that enhance monitoring precision. The conversation also looks ahead to the future of observability, covering performance profiling, real-user experience, and AI-driven workloads. This led to showcasing how OpenTelemetry is redefining how teams measure and optimize system reliability.
2025-11-2550 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastRedefining Reliability How Komodor is Building the Future of AI-Driven SREIn this episode Itiel Shwartz, Co-founder and CTO at Komodor, shares how his team is reimagining site reliability with Claudia AI, an autonomous system that detects, investigates, and remediates Kubernetes issues in real time. Itiel discusses the evolution from early AIOps concepts to today’s multi-agent architectures, where AI handles repetitive operations and frees engineers to focus on innovation. He also explores the challenges of accuracy, hallucination control, and balancing automation with human oversight. The conversation offers a deep look at how Komodor’s AI agents are shaping the next generation of reliability engineering in the age of large langua...
2025-11-2530 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Vector Search to Database Agents - Weaviate’s Journey to Powering Production AIWeaviate CEO & Co-Founder Bob van Luijt talks about how vector databases evolved into AI-native databases and why that matters for engineers building production AI.The conversation covers core use cases (vector search, RAG), the new wave of database-level agents (query & transformation agents), multi-tenancy and storage optimizations, and practical notes on getting started with Weaviate’s cloud and free tier. Expect clear explanations, a short demo video walkthrough, and product lessons from scaling an open-source database.
2025-11-2542 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastOperationalizing AI How Jozu Brings Machine Learning to ProductionIn this episode of The Software Plaza Podcast, we speak with Brad Micklea, Co-Founder and CEO of Jozu, a platform built to simplify and secure AI/ML deployment. Brad shares his journey from Red Hat and AWS to founding Jozu, diving deep into the challenges of taking AI models from experimentation to production. He explains how Jozu bridges the gap between data science, engineering, and operations, ensuring models are compliant, secure, and production-ready. Tune in to explore how open source, Kubernetes, and model packaging standards like KitOps are shaping the future of enterprise AI.
2025-11-2550 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond YAML The Future of Platform Engineering with FormaeIn this episode, Pavlo Baron, Co-founder & CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, shares how Formae is transforming platform engineering by replacing brittle YAML/JSON configs with smart, codified abstractions. Built on an agent-based system, Formae simplifies collaboration, reduces toil, and bridges the gap between developers and ops ushering in a faster, more reliable era of infrastructure management. He explains how Formae enables granular, patch-based changes to minimize blast radius and why modern infrastructure tools must evolve for speed, collaboration, and simplicity. It’s a fresh take on platform engineering designed for the realities of today’s distributed systems and teams.
2025-11-2551 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastScaling Smart Sarah Polan on AI, Compliance & Modern Infrastructure in Financial ServicesIn this episode, Sarah Polan, Transformational CTO and Consultant in Digital Infrastructure & Scalability, explores how large financial institutions are rethinking modernization in the era of AI. Sarah shares insights from real-world transformation projects, from navigating compliance-driven change under DORA regulations to tackling AI integration challenges and infrastructure modernization. She also unpacks why 95% of AI pilots fail, the importance of cultural leadership in tech transformations, and what it takes to future-proof an organization’s infrastructure for AI scalability.
2025-11-2539 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCut the Noise Runtime Vulnerability Prioritization with UpwindChris Lentricchia, Product Marketing Manager at Upwind, explains how runtime context turns thousands of scan alerts into the few that actually matter. Learn how Upwind’s eBPF-powered platform detects live exploits, reduces false positives, and helps teams secure production workloads efficiently. He also shares how organizations can move beyond static scanning, balance shift-left and shift-right practices, and achieve real-time visibility without adding system overhead. This conversation is packed with insights for cloud-native, DevOps, and security teams aiming to modernize runtime protection.
2025-11-2540 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Zanzibar to SpiceDB Rethinking Access Control at AuthZedJake Moshenko, Co-founder & CEO of AuthZed, gives a deep dive into relationship-based access control — the model behind SpiceDB and inspired by Google’s Zanzibar. This episode explains how modeling relationships (people↔data↔teams) unlocks fine-grained, portable policies and why treating auth as a database matters for caching, consistency, and scale. Jake also contrasts RBAC/ABAC tradeoffs, shows how centralized auth speeds product iteration, and outlines when teams should stop DIYing permissions. Ideal for architects and security leads rethinking access control.
2025-11-2542 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastPolicies, Not Platforms Practical Lessons for GitOps & DevEx SuccessSteve Fenton, Head of DevRel & Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus, shares findings from Octopus’ Platform Engineering Pulse research. He explains why making security and operational policies mandatory often drives healthier platform adoption, how GitOps and Argo are shaping deployments, and which metrics (DORA / Monk) actually matter for platform success. Short, practical, and research-backed takeaways for platform teams and engineering leaders.
2025-11-2544 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastRunning LLMs on Kubernetes: From GPU Bottlenecks to Reliable, Production-Grade InferenceIn this episode, Abdel SGHIOUAR, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Google and CNCF Ambassador, unpacks the technical and cultural shifts happening in the Kubernetes ecosystem. As co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast, he shares how enterprises, from LinkedIn to CERN, are pushing Kubernetes beyond microservices into powering GenAI workloads. Abdel dives into the hardware bottlenecks, operational hurdles, and community-driven innovations shaping the future of Kubernetes.
2025-09-1845 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastHow Akamas IO Uses AI to Unlock 50–90% Cloud Cost Savings with Continuous OptimizationIn this conversation with Luca Forni, CEO, and Stefano Doni, CTO of Akamas, we explore how enterprises can achieve massive savings and reliability improvements through AI-driven optimization. They share why configuration tuning is often overlooked, how Akamas addresses the “butterfly effect” across the stack, and why optimization must be continuous. From Black Friday load spikes to everyday workloads, they explain how organizations can balance cost, performance, and reliability seamlessly.
2025-09-1852 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Kubernetes Costs to AI Bot Wars – Why Serverless Needs WebAssemblyIn this episode, Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, talks about the surprising realities of running serverless at scale. They cover how WebAssembly unlocks faster cold starts, higher density, and massive cost savings, plus the challenges of AI-driven bot traffic, Cloudflare outages, and edge reliability. Learn why Fermyon’s Spin project at CNCF and their Akamai partnership could shape the next wave of serverless.
2025-09-1856 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Crashes to Complete Mobile Observability – Instabug on App Quality Beyond Bug ReportingIn this episode, Mahmoud El Magdoub, Director of Product at Instabug, explains why mobile teams need to move beyond crash reporting to a broader definition of app quality.He breaks down the difference between mobile and web debugging, shares real customer stories, and introduces Instabug’s approach to proactive and reactive monitoring, frustration-free sessions, and performance metrics that actually matter.
2025-09-1854 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastSecuring AI Agents with Just-in-Time Permissions: Permit.io on Agent Identity & ConsentOr Weis, CEO of Permit.io, explains why AI agents need a new approach to identity and access control.He introduces just-in-time derived permissions, dives into relationship-based access (ReBAC), and shares how their new Agent Security platform helps manage consent, delegation, and risk in a world of fast-evolving LLM agents.
2025-09-181h 00The SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Chaos to Control: How CloudQuery Makes Cloud Data AI-ReadyIn this episode, Joe Karlsson, Senior Developer Advocate, CloudQuery talks about the hidden complexities of cloud data management.From API rate limits and syncing issues to data privacy and performance. Joe walks us through how CloudQuery simplifies data movement and makes your cloud data usable, secure, and accessible, even for AI agents.With a live demo and thoughtful insights on where the data and AI space is headed, this episode is a must-listen for data engineers, platform teams, and AI builders alike.
2025-08-1849 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastScaling Kubernetes the Right Way: Platform Engineering Lessons from KubermaticSebastian Scheele, CEO of Kubermatic, shares insights on running Kubernetes at scale, the evolution of platform engineering, and the power of using the Kubernetes API to build developer self-service platforms.He discusses managing thousands of clusters, simplifying infrastructure for developers, and integrating AI workloads.Plus, get a live demo of how Kubermatic enables seamless multi-cloud Kubernetes management, all while staying true to open-source principles.
2025-08-1847 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond Hype Akka.io's CEO on Solving Agentic AI's Toughest Challenges – Cost & Developer ExperienceDiscover Akka.io's unique architecture and concurrency model for building and scaling agentic systems efficiently. Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka.io, details real-world use cases, emerging design patterns, and his vision for self-improving, autonomous AI.Hear how Akka.io is delivering "certainty in the face of uncertainty" in the agentic AI revolution.
2025-08-1848 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Web 3.0 to Agentic AI: How Tray is Giving LLMs a Body and BrainIn this deep-dive with Alistair Russell, Co-founder and CTO of Tray.ai, we explore the evolution from semantic web research with Tim Berners-Lee to building Merlin, an agentic AI platform that's transforming business automation.Discover how Tray enables large language models to not just think, but act, with context, governance, and composability at scale.
2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMastering Modern Threats: Checkpoint's Roy Barda on WAF, API, and Contextual AIJoin Roy Barda, Director and Head of CloudGuard WAF at Checkpoint, for a comprehensive look at securing web applications and APIs in today's complex environment.Roy explains Checkpoint's unique AI-driven WAF solution that moves beyond static signatures to proactively identify zero-day threats and reduce false positives. He also discusses their robust API security platform, offering automated discovery, strong enforcement, and future plans for detecting misuse anomalies.Learn about the power of contextual AI in enhancing security measures and get a live demonstration of CloudGuard WAF's intuitive interface and powerful threat prevention capabilities.
2025-07-2841 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCNAPP, eBPF, and Beyond: How Sweet Security Delivers Runtime-First Cloud ProtectionSarah Elkaim, the Head of Product Marketing at Sweet Security breaks down how their real-time, eBPF-powered runtime protection is transforming cloud-native security.From dynamic baselining to proprietary LLMs, discover how Sweet is cutting incident response times to minutes and eliminating false positives, redefining what CNAPP can do.
2025-07-2845 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond Compliance: Neil Levine Reveals How Anchore is Revolutionizing SBOM ManagementJoin us for an insightful conversation with Neil Levine, SVP Product at Anchore, as we dive into the evolving world of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs).Discover how SBOMs are transitioning from mere compliance necessities to powerful tools for enhancing software supply chain security. Neil shares Anchore's latest product release, focusing on critical features like "Bring Your Own SBOM" for diverse SBOM management, and the innovative Anchore Rank for prioritizing vulnerabilities.Learn about the operational challenges organizations face with SBOM sprawl and quality, and get a glimpse into the future of SBOM insights and automation.
2025-07-2837 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastZero Trust Authorization for Non-Human Identities: A Deep Dive with Cerbos' Alex OlivierJoin Alex Olivier, Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, as he uncovers the massive growth of non-human identities (NHIs) in modern systems. From ephemeral AI agents to IoT devices.Discover why traditional identity management falls short and how Cerbos enables a true zero-trust architecture by authorizing every machine and workload identity in real-time. Alex also shares insights into Cerbos' flexible, stateless approach and their upcoming release.
2025-07-2840 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastBeyond Traditional AppSec: Navigating the New Frontier of AI Security with Mend AIHear from Bar-El Tayouri, Head of Mend AI, about the urgent need for a new approach to securing AI-driven applications.From understanding novel AI components and their risks to implementing a comprehensive AppSec program, this episode provides actionable insights for organizations building with AI.
2025-07-2838 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCloudBolt x StormForge: Why Automated FinOps Beats Human EffortKyle Campos, CTO of CloudBolt, joins us to talk about the failure of the 'report factory' model in FinOps. Too many teams generate dashboards, but few actually remediate waste.CloudBolt is changing that with an orchestration-first approach that closes the loop from insight to action. Kyle also explains how the StormForge acquisition supercharges Kubernetes optimization with real-time automation.
2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastFrom Minecraft to Kubernetes Security: The Founding Story of Edera with Alex ZenlaJoin us for a fascinating conversation with Alex Zenla, Co-founder & CTO of Edera, as she shares her unconventional journey from the Minecraft community and IoT to building a cutting-edge Kubernetes security solution.Learn about the "aha" moments that led to Edera's unique approach to container isolation, their focus on security and efficiency, and their plans for the future of cloud-native infrastructure.
2025-07-2852 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastUnmasking Shadow AI: Witness AI & Network Observability for the Era of Agentic AITraditional security measures often fall short when it comes to the evolving world of agent-based and shadow AI.Discover the power of network-based observability in this insightful conversation with Trevor Welsh, VP Product at Witness AI.Learn how Witness AI provides unprecedented visibility into AI interactions, enabling enterprises to identify risks, enforce policies, and protect sensitive data across all AI usage.
2025-07-2846 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCloud Security in the Age of AI: Insights from Dot Security's CTOLearn about the current state of cloud security and the impact of artificial intelligence in this conversation with Jeff Leder, CTO of Dot Security. We explore common security challenges, the "shift left" philosophy, and the evolving threats and opportunities presented by AI in the cyber landscape.
2025-07-2847 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMitigant's cloud attack emulation: Real security testing without breaking productionWe had a chat with Nils Karn, Co-Founder & CEO, Mitigant, and Thomas Fricke, Co-Founder & Advisor, Mitigant about the concept of cloud attack emulation.It involves simulating attacks like ransomware to test the resilience of a system, emphasizing that it's not a simulation but an actual attack executed in a controlled environment.Mitigant conducts these attack emulations on pre-production systems rather than simulations or exact copies, to ensure the results are highly accurate.
2025-05-2148 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastAviatrix and the surprising upside of better cloud firewallsScott Leatherman, CMO, Aviatrix, joins us to highlight the challenges of securing cloud-native environments, and the need for modern firewall solutions.Aviatrix's Kubernetes Firewall helps reduce IP exhaustion and provides east-west and egress security. A surprising offshoot of doing cloud and Kubernetes firewalls the right way is being able to modernize your applications.Tune in to hear a unique take on cloud network security.
2025-05-2140 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastCalico v3.30 brings observability, staged policies and more to improve Kubernetes network securityReza Ramezanpour, Developer Advocate at Tigera joins us to talk about v3.30 of Project Calico.This release focuses on enhanced observability and a staged network policy feature that allows for non-enforcing policy testing without impacting cluster performance. Calico 3.30 introduces integration with the Gateway API, enabling advanced ingress traffic control and micro-segmentation capabilities.Tune in to hear from one of the innovators in the Kubernetes networking security space.
2025-05-2136 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastOX Security: Only 5% of application security alerts are worth looking atToday's podcast features OX Security, a company revolutionizing application security. OX Security covers the entire application lifecycle, from design to runtime, ensuring comprehensive protection. Their advanced verification system identifies and validates security threats with hard evidence, eliminating guesswork. Boaz Barzel, Field CTO, demonstrates how their dashboard dramatically reduces noise, filtering over 500,000 security alerts down to the most critical 2.08%. Tune in for an insightful conversation about ASPM.
2025-03-0752 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastActiveState wants you to stay a step ahead of open source dependency woesActiveState 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.
2025-01-1355 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastZitadel goes beyond basic authentication into threat intelligence & analysis of authentication dataFlorian 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.
2025-01-1358 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastGrafana brings great Kubernetes observability with the added bonus of cost optimizationVasil 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.
2024-12-0953 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastAtlas is out to make database schema management declarative and compliantRotem 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.
2024-12-0942 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastStyra releases Regal – A linter tool for the Rego policy languageThe team at Styra created OPA & Rego. With OPA 1.0 around the corner they have released a new tool to troubleshoot policies written with Rego. Charlie Egan, Senior Developer Advocate at Styra, joins us to talk about all things OPA and demos Regal as well. If policy as code excites you, you won’t want to miss this one.
2024-11-2141 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastMirantis Lens is the Kubernetes IDE you didn’t know you neededEdward Ionel talks about how Mirantis Lens unifies Dev & Ops around Kubernetes workflows. With unique features, a wide user base, and great flexibility, Lens is sure to ease your Kubernetes operations.
2024-11-2130 minThe SoftwarePlaza IT PodcastLTS for discontinued OSS or trouble migrating projectsOpenLogic provides end-to-end support for OSS projects &
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.
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