TCP Talks | AI, FinOps & Cloud Leadership Interviews

Keep the Raccoons Out: Service Mesh, MCP, and Securing Agentic Workloads With William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and creator of Linkerd Linkerd just turned 10, so we brought on the person who built it and coined the term “service mesh” in the first place. William Morgan joins Jonathan and Justin to talk about where service mesh came from, where it’s going, and the very specific kind...

For this special edition of TCP Talks, Justin Brodley is joined by four distinguished guests from the FinOps Foundation following the recent FinOps X conference in San Diego. Rob Martin, Mike Fuller, Graham Murphy, and the TCP team dive deep into the evolution of FinOps from pure cloud cost management to the broader “Cloud Plus” world, the rapid adoption of Focus 1.2, and how AI is tra...

For this special edition of TCP Talks, Justin Brodley and Matthew Kohn are joined by Chris Opat, SVP of Cloud Operations at Backblaze, to discuss how the cloud storage innovator is reshaping the industry landscape. From their origins as a consumer backup company to becoming a major player in enterprise cloud storage, Chris shares insights on AI workloads, the true cost of egress fees, and why your...

Summary – Finops X In this conversation, Joe Daly and Rob Martin from the FinOps Foundation discuss the latest developments in the FinOps space and Finops-X . They talk about the evolution of FinOps practices, the growth of the FinOps community, and the importance of the Focus project, which aims to standardize billing data from different cloud providers. They also discuss the adoption of Fi...

For this special edition of TCP Talks, Justin and Jonathan are joined by Travis Runty, CTO of Public Cloud with Rackspace Technology. In today’s interview, they discuss being accidentally multi cloud, public vs private cloud, and cloud migration, and best practices when assisting clients with their cloud journeys.  Background Rackspace Technology , commonly known as Rackspace, is a leading multi-c...

A bonus episode of The Cloud Pod may be just what the doctor ordered, and this week Justin and Jonathan are here to bring you an interview with Sandy Bird of Sonrai Security. There’s so much going on in the IAM space, and we’re really happy to have an expert in the studio with us this week to talk about some of the security least privilege specifics.  Background Sonrai (pronounced Son-ree, which m...

Andrew Krug from Datadog In this episode, Andrew Krug talks about Datadog as a security observability tool, shedding light on some of its applications as well as its benefits to engineers. Andrew is the lead in Datadog Security Advocacy and Datadog Security Labs. Also a Cloud Security consultant, he started the Threat Response Project, a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Andrew has...

In this episode, Ravi Mayuram highlights the functionality of Couchbase as an evolutionary database platform, citing several simple day-to-day use cases and particular advantages of Couchbase. Ravi Mayuram is CTO of Couchbase. He is an accomplished engineering executive with a passion for creating and delivering game-changing products for startups as well as Fortune-500 industry-leading companies....

Revolutionizing Observability with New Relic In this episode, Daniel explains a new strategy towards observability aimed at contextualizing large volumes of data to make it easier for users to identify the root cause of problems with their systems. Daniel Kim is a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic and the founder of Bit Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making tech acce...

Spatial Simulations with AWS SimSpace Weaver In this episode, Peter sits with Rahul Thakkar to discuss the revolutionary AWS SimSpace Weaver , highlighting its unique function and applications across several industries. Rahul Thakkar is the Director and General Manager of Simulation Technologies at Amazon Web Services. Before AWS, he held multiple executive roles at Boeing, Brivo, PIXIA, and Dream...

Applying and Maximizing Observability In this episode, Christine talks about her company, Honeycomb which runs on AWS, with the goal of promoting observability for clients interested in the performance of their code or those trying to identify problem areas that need to be corrected. Christine Yen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Before founding Honeycomb, she built analytics products at Pa...

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Anthony Lye, Executive Vice President and General Manager of NetApp’s Public Cloud Services Business Unit. An industry veteran for over 25 years, Anthony has been at the forefront of cloud innovation for over half this time. Anthony shares his insight on the importance of embracing disruption in the tech industry. He discusses...

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Jonathan Heiliger, co-founder and partner at Vertex Ventures : an early-stage venture capital firm backing innovative technology entrepreneurs.  Earlier in his career, at just 19, Jonathan co-founded web hosting provider GlobalCenter and served as CTO. He went on to hold engineering roles at Walmart and Danger, Inc., the latter...

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO of Fugue , a cloud security company that helps businesses run faster on the cloud without breaking any rules.  Josh shares insights from Fugue’s State of Cloud Security 2021 Report, and highlights key themes, including preventative security measures, automation, and engineering-first compliance. ...

In this episode of TCP Talks, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Miles Ward, the founder of the Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture practice. Currently, Miles leads the cloud strategy and solutions capabilities as the Chief Technology Officer for consulting and IT services company SADA . Startups have helped increase the popularity of open source products among enterprise businesses. Ch...

Note: This interview is part of a paid sponsorship between Open Raven and The Cloud Pod.  In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Mark Curphey, Chief Product Office and Co-Founder of Open Raven , a fully integrated platform for security and privacy workflows. Featured Guest Name: Mark Curphey What he does: Mark is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Open Raven ....

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Forrest Brazeal, a Senior Manager at A Cloud Guru , a cloud education platform that has attracted more than two million students. A Cloud Guru offers full certification training and technical deep dives for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and more. Forrest talks about why companies need to invest in...

Note: This interview is part of a paid sponsorship between Protera and The Cloud Pod.  In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Patrick Osterhaus, CTO and Founder of Protera Technologies , a preeminent provider for SAP and cloud managed services. Patrick discusses how the cloud, COVID-19, and work-from-home are influencing SAP and legacy enterprise software packages t...

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Bart Castle, an AWS and cloud computing trainer and media personality. Bart works with IT training company CBT Nuggets and also does cloud-migration consulting projects.  Bart shares the patterns he seems based on training demand and also advises how to decide which certification to go for next. He discusses the importance of s...

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker chat with Liz Rice , VP of open source engineering for Aqua Security , which provides tools to secure cloud-native deployments.  Liz describes Aqua’s evolution over the years: From a provider of container security to its acquisition of CloudSploit and its development of open-source security solutions. Most customers are using cloud...

In this episode of TCP-Talks we chat with Amiram Shachar, founder and CEO of Spot , which aims to help its customers reduce complexity and compute costs by up to 90% in the AWS, GCP and Azure clouds. We talk about the impact on the spot pricing market, and the differences between the AWS, GCP and Azure approach to spot pricing and delivery, and whether customers are asking for multi cloud solution...

This week Chris Riley  DevOps Advocate for Splunk and Podcast Host of Developers Eating the World joins us. We ask the tough questions, like what is Observability exactly? We touch on the risk of robots taking my job, with AI-Ops, and if it is marketing buzzwords or a product. Plus the mad rush to SRE all the NOCs, because GOOGLE DOES IT and more on TCP-Talks. Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoarding...

Josh Stella (twitter: @joshstella) joins us to talk about the state of cloud security. We discuss Fugue’s new report, the complexity and challenges of IAM, and the most common cloud misconfiguration aren’t always the ones you would expect. Fugue ensures cloud infrastructure stays in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. Our solution identifies cloud infrastructure se...

Jacques Chester author of Knative In Action and Principal engineer at Pivotal joins us to educate us on Knative.  Knative is an open-source tool to run functions as a service on top of Kubernetes and is gaining popularity in Kubernetes deployments.  Learn all about Knative, Kubernetes maturity, Googles involvement in Knative, and more. If you are are interested in checking out Knative in Action, I...

One of the most exciting cloud computing technologies of the last few years is Serverless computing, whether it be via AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , GCP functions or technologies like K-Native . This week Jonathan and Justin talk to Ben Kehoe Chief Roboticist at iRobot and AWS Serverless hero. We ask Ben the burning questions about Serverless Computing, robotics, AWS and more! Listen today. &nbsp...