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 recent webinar, which can be found here: https://assets.itopstimes.com/penguin-solutions-webinar-september-2025

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/resources/komodor-2025-enterprise-kubernetes-report/

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