The SoftwarePlaza IT Podcast

In this episode, Colin Griffin, Founder and CEO of Krumware, talks about how platform engineering has evolved beyond DevOps and internal developer platforms. Colin shares a practical, experience-driven perspective on building platforms as products that support developers, infrastructure, security, and data teams, drawing on real-world lessons and ideas aligned with the CNCF Platform Engineering Wh...

In this episode we welcome Sonal Khanna, the Co-Founder at Secure Blink, to unpack how AI is reshaping application and API security. Sonal shares her journey of building Secure Blink and the thinking behind THREATSPY, a developer-first, AI-powered security platform. The conversation dives into why traditional security tools fall short, how reachability-based prioritization changes remediation, and...

In 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 be...

In 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 docum...

In 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 mode...

In 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 pipe...

In 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 innovat...

Weaviate 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...

In 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,...

In 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 manage...

In 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. S...

Chris 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 pr...

Jake 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, sh...

Steve 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-back...

In 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 hurdl...

In 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 worklo...

In 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...

In 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 actua...

Or 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.

In 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 d...

Sebastian 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 Kub...

Discover 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.

In 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.  

Join 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 automa...

Sarah 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.