July 10, 2025

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum

1 hour 10 minutes

Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow.

This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!

Titles we almost went with this week:

(Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.)

FSx and the City: When File Systems Meet Object Storage

The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required

OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home

Kernel Sanders: Microsoft’s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System

Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software

Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors

Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown

Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse

The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said “It’s Not You, It’s Your Access Level”

Google’s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain

The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google’s 10th Annual Carbon Confession

Watts Up Doc? Google’s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve

Terminal Velocity: Google’s AI Gets a Command Performance

Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google’s New CLI Companion

The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal

AI See What You Did There: Google’s New Compliance Framework

Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing

The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks

Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You

Google’s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included)

Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage

Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It’s Been Missing

VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management

Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code

The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud

Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way)

Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade

Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly

WAF’s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall

The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security

WAF and Peace: Microsoft’s Treaty Between Security Tools

Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management

Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side

Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard

IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management

No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS’s Address Game

Azure’s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses

Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI

DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually

The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read

Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions

Follow Up

00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe – Ars Technica

Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing catastrophic system-wi

...more

View all episodes

By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

4.9

3434 ratings