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• The dynamic nature of applications is causing network configurations to be outdated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 by
• The rationale behind shortening certificate lifetimes
• How to start preparing for changes

Read an article based on this episode here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/preparing-for-tls-certificate-lifetimes-dropping-from-398-days-to-47-days-by-2029/

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 story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

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 growing power needs. 

Key talking points include:

• Why there's increased demand on the grid now
• The role nuclear power could play
• The challenges to taking a nuclear approach
• Figuring out where to put new nuclear plants