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Dave Rubinstein, Editor in Chief of IT Ops Times, discusses AI agentic architecture with Rodric Rabbah of Postman. Rabbah introduces Astro AI, a platform for managing AI agents, emphasizing the need for visibility and control in AI systems. He explains agentic architecture as a non-deterministic distributed system, highlighting the challenges organizations face in deploying and trusting AI. Rabbah...

Dave Rubinstein, Editor in Chief of IT Ops Times, discusses with Becky Trevino, Chief Product Officer at Flexera, the challenges organizations face in managing AI spending and ensuring value. Trevino explains the shift from traditional cloud and SaaS pricing to outcome-based pricing, driven by the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. She highlights the need for organizations to revert to trad...

Dave Rubinstein and Christopher Robinson discussed the sustainability gap in open source package registries, which poses a threat to software supply chains. Robinson highlighted the exponential rise in compute costs and security demands, exacerbated by AI and malware proliferation. The Open Source Security Foundation formed a working group to address these issues, focusing on security technologies...

In this episode, Dave talks with Elad Koren, VP of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks, about how organizations rushing to implement AI without thinking about the security implications that can arise from that. Among the topic they discuss are: --The risk of proliferating unvetted agents -- How vulnerabilities are being weaponized -- What organizations can do to improve their security posture...

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses AI in the Security Operations Center with Jimmy Mesta, co-founder and CTO at RAD Security. Among the topics addressed are: How AI amplifies existing SOC strengths rather than inventing new capabilities from scratch? Why foundational elements, like signal hygiene, clear workflows, and documented context, must be in place before a SOC can b...

In this episode, Dave interviews J.R. Storment, executive director of the FinOps Foundation about some of the challenges related to managing AI spend. They discuss: The mismatch between increased spending on AI and a lack of clarity on that spend Similarities and differences with managing cloud spend How AI can actually be used for tracking AI spending

In this episode, Dave interviews Austin Parker, director of open source at Honeycomb and a member of OpenTelemetry's governance committee. They discuss:  The increase in OpenTelemetry maintainers this year How prevalent OpenTelemetry has become across the cloud native ecosystem AI's impact on the need for observability 

In this episode, Dave interviews Jason English, director and principal analyst at Intellyx, who attended KubeCon last week. He shares what he learned from the event, the latest trends in cloud-native computing, and where he sees the industry heading. 

In this episode, Dave interviews Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware, about the company's recent ITAM survey. They discuss:  The growing confidence gap between IT and other areas of the business on ITAM data accuracy How "ghost assets" are becoming more of a concern The most surprising finding of the report

In this episode, Dave interviews Brendan Hannigan, CEO and co-founder of Sonrai Security, about privilege management in the cloud. They discuss: The current state of privileged access management (PAM) WALLy, Sonrai Security's PAM AI agent  Why traditional privilege management is insufficient in dynamic cloud environments 

This episode was sponsored by Penguin Solutions. In this episode, Jenna interviews Rudy de Anda, head of strategic alliances at Penguin Solutions, about the benefits of using VMs and containers together. They discuss:  Why VMs and containers go well together Challenges of making this convergence happen Use cases where VMs and containers are better off separate This conversation is based on a recen...

In this episode, Jenna interviews Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, about the company's recent Enterprise Kubernetes Report. They discuss: Why a majority of Kubernetes outages are a result of recent system changes Why it's taking so long to respond to incidents How to reduce the percentage of over- and under-provisioned workloads Read the full report here: https://komodor.com...

In this episode, Jenna interviews Anant Bhardwaj, CEO and founder of Instabase, about what factors to consider before purchasing an AI tool. They discuss: Why it's important to start with the problem you have and work backwards Making sure agentic AI fits in with the rest of the existing systems Planning for long-term use This episode originally aired on 8/29/2026 on What the Dev?  

In this episode, Jenna interviews Rick Spencer, general manager of Business Critical Linux at SUSE, to talk about the state of open source enterprise Linux one year after CentOS reached EOL. They discuss: The history of CentOS that led to EOL Advice for navigating the current Linux landscape The OpenELA organization and what it's brought to the community

In this episode, Dave interviews Avi Freedman, CEO of Kentik about network intelligence.  They discuss:  The talent gap in network intelligence How network monitoring has evolved from the days of 24/7 staffed NOCs The dynamic nature of applications is causing network configurations to be outdated

In this episode, Dave interviews Andi Gutmans, VP and general manager of Data Cloud at Google. They discuss: How AI can help with data management How AI tools have matured and are now more accessible for late adopters The work Google is doing with AI 

In this episode, Dave interviews Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, about kagent, a framework for running agents in Kubernetes.  They discuss: Why kagent was created What led solo.io to open source the project and donate it to the CNCF Difficulties with deploying AI agents in large organizations

In this episode, Jenna speaks with Krishna Sai, CTO of SolarWinds, about operational resilience. They discuss: How AI is impacting operational resilience What other trends are affecting it How to improve resilience

This episode originally aired on 4/29/25 on What the Dev?, our podcast for software developers.  In this episode, Jenna interviewed Dean Coclin, senior director of Industry Strategy at DigiCert, about the recent vote by the CA/Browser Forum to shorten the lifespan of TLS certificates to 47 days by 2029.  They discuss: The schedule for the changes and the gradual increments lifespans will shorten b...

In this episode, Dave interviews Nadav Eiron, SVP of cloud engineering at Crusoe, about the challenges of transitioning AI from research into production. They discuss: The high cost and expertise requirements for working with LLMs The need for better tooling and abstractions  The significant power requirements for AI infrastructure 

In this episode, Dave interviews Mark Thacker, senior manager for product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  They discuss: Post-quantum cryptography algorithms "Harvest now, decrypt later" practices Assessing the risk of quantum computing

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss: What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers The st...

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews William Morgan, CEO and founder of Buoyant, the company behind the open source project Linkerd. They discuss: What's new in Linkerd 2.18 What service meshes are Why Buoyant brought Linkerd to the CNCF

This episode originally aired July 19, 2024, but it's still relevant today as we figure out how to meet the demands AI is placing on the power grid.  In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the g...

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless. They discuss: Why serverless adoption has stagnated The complexity of serverless architecture What needs to change to increase adoption