The Cloudcast

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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI. Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with tec

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May 14, 2025Building Customer-First Products
Siqi Chen (@blader, CEO/CFO @Runwayco), talks about his journey from JPL developer to Founder of a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) startup. We focus on how to build products that customers crave and how a customer-centric view differs from traditional product management.
SHOW: 923
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #923 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
Runway website
Behind What Seems Like an Overnight Success (video)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Siqi. First, your combination of technical and business/financial background is fascinating. How did you go from coding at NASA to Head of Product at Zynga to CEO/CFO for a finance platform startup? Give everyone a quick introduction.
Topic 2 - One thing I’ve noticed as a trend in your background is the core concept of building. What has been your philosophy in building products? How do you build products that customers demand?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about AI and AGI for a moment. We hear all the time how disruptive this will be. What are your thoughts here, and how do we develop both adaptability and resiliency to new technologies?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk FP&A (financial planning & analysis). Our core listeners out there tend to skew more towards the tech and infrastructure side, but a core theme of this show is always to be learning as much of the business as possible to apply those concepts. As someone with a background in both worlds, plus now running an FP&A startup, what do you wish folks on the technical side of the house knew more about to make their jobs easier?
Topic 5 - We posted a link in the show notes for a video you did on the “overnight success” of Runway. It was a good representation and origin story of how something can go viral with the right mindset and product-market fit. Tell everyone about that as Runway approaches 5 years now.
Topic 6 - What is your biggest challenge in the FP&A space today? Is it AI? We’ve seen a lot of AI disruption in coding, legal, and other areas requiring deep data pool insights. Is this any different?

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27min
May 11, 2025WhyQ vs. It is what it is
Tech CEOs are making bold proclamations, from WhyQ to It is what it is. How will companies navigate this spectrum as they seek innovation, accountability and profitability throughout 2025?
SHOW: 922
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #922 Transcript
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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SHOW NOTES:
Amazon 2024 CEO Letter to Shareholders - A Why Culture
Uber CEO says “it is what it is” about changing benefits

WHEN DOES WHY BECOME IT IS WHAT IT IS?
Communicating is difficult, especially as the company grows in size (or is remote)
Communicating change is difficult, even when communication channels are strong
Outside of finance, tech tends to pay at the high end of salaries and perks
We’re in an interesting time of challenging economics and pressure from AI
Perks are difficult to pull back, because business success isn’t evenly rewarded
Why is positioned as open culture, or strategy, but it’s also about day-to-day behavior
It is what it is a decision, but it’s also accountability and continued viability
Most leaders are going to have to manage between Why and It is what it is in 2025
Most workers are going to have to work between Why and It is what it is in 2025

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25min
May 07, 2025AI & Cloud Trends for April 2025
Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from April 2025, including OpenAI, MCP, VibeCoding and Hyperscaler earnings.
SHOW: 921
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #921 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
Link to April 2025 News and Articles
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32min
May 04, 2025The Early AI Journey and Learning Curve
As more companies begin to adopt AI into their workforce and day-to-day processes, it will be interesting to watch how their learning curve is spread across knowledge workers.

SHOW: 920
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #920 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
AI Horseless Carriages (AI user-experiences)

HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”
The low-hanging fruit, simple on-ramp is the key to early AI adoption
Google and Microsoft are already showing revenue increases, likely through the productivity apps bundling
Expect prices to increase slowly, but frequently as adoption happens and companies get used to the knowledge worker productivity increases (or expectations)
Curious how knowledge workers are adopting, sharing, increasing their learning curve
Sharing still seems to be lacking within the AI tools. Not just sharing of an individual task, but sharing of learning curves, best practices, datasets
Is there a dataset collection opportunity? This feels like Big Data or Data Lake 5.0.

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22min
April 30, 2025DevOps Meets Platform Engineering
Mark Freydl (CEO/Founder @codiacio) talks about the challenges of blending IaaC, DevOps and Platform Engineering to drive efficient software development lifecycles.

SHOW: 919
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #919 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW NOTES:
Codiac website
Codiac at Tech Field Day

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Mark. Give everyone a quick introduction.
Topic 2 - Before we dig into the tech, let’s start with the problem. What problem were you seeing in software development that wasn’t being solved with IaaC, Platform Engineering, DevOps, etc.? Where does SDLC fit into this?
Topic 3 - Have microservices helped or hurt? We hear all the time about the loose coupling of microservices and benefits towards production, but doesn’t that also make it harder to develop? How do you recreate an environment where you are dependent on a bunch of microservices in a development pipeline?
Topic 4 - I get the feeling this is all about removing friction. But where and how? I see Kubernetes as a blessing and curse many times. It’s an awesome application platform, as long as you aren’t the one that has to do the care and feeding on it. Thoughts?
Topic 5 - The goal here I believe is a closed loop system that is beneficial for developers and SRE’s, but how do you balance closed loops vs. extensibility and abstraction of different platforms to the systems that are truly write once.
Topic 6 - How does the culture and relationships in the org have to change to meet the changes in the tech?

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27min
April 27, 2025Five Thoughts on AI Agents
There is a lot of excitement around AI Agents. Here are five questions we're asking ourselves about how AI Agents will be used and managed.

SHOW: 918
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #918 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
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SHOW NOTES:
Anthropic warns that fully AI employees are a year away
AuthZ Agents Chaos
Why we need to get AuthZ right
AI Agent Gateway and AI Agent Mesh
Auth in the age of AI Agent (Cloudcast Eps. 885)
Trust will make or break AI Agents
Introducing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A - Google)
Introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP - Anthroopic)
Top 9 AI Agent Frameworks

HOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”
[Who] How is an AI agent represented in the context of a person, a group, an organization?
[What] How will we audit Agent created data or content? Will we need a way to label Agent-created information?
[Where] Will we have agents that are focused on non-human-interactions (e.g. optimizations) vs. human-interactions (e.g. empathy)?
[When] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?
[Why] Why will we choose an Agent (as the implementation) over another form or working on a problem?
[How] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?

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19min
April 23, 2025The Intersection of AI and APIs
Taylor Pechacek (Head of Product, API Collaboration Core @getpostman) talks about APIs, AI, and MCP (Model Context Protocol). We cover what is top of mind for developers and what has shifted in the industry recently.
SHOW: 917
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #917 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
Postman - The World’s Leading API Platform
OpenAPI Specification
MCP - Model Context Protocol (Anthropic)
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Postman? Tell us a little bit about Postman, for our audience that might not be familiar.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin with some broader concepts - in today’s world, where does a developer interact with software vs. an API - what are the most important things they have to think about?
Topic 3 - What are the standards that are most important for developers these days? Where does OpenAPI Spec fit into that space?
Topic 4 - APIs are now so pervasive. What are the best practices for API usage patterns and governance? What are some of the things that Postman is doing to improve this for developers and companies?
Topic 5 - Let’s talk a little bit about how you’re seeing AI change how developers work, and if/how AI is impacting APIs.
Topic 6 - Help us understand how you expect to see APIs interacting with AI Agents. What will the bigger picture look like for these interactions, and how will they be different than current API interactions?
Topic 7 - Can we finish by talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol) a little bit? This is a new standard that is being adopted by many companies.
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44min
April 20, 2025AI Augmenting vs. Replacing
Instead of focusing on augmenting existing teams and processes with AI, are we beginning to see more companies looking to replace teams with AI? Will economic pressure increase this likelihood?
SHOW: 916
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #916 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
CEOs choose more AI, fewer jobs
OpenAI plots charging $20,000 per month for PhD-level Agents
Why AI isn’t giving Salesforce a boost
The one person $Billion dollar company

HUMAN-AUGMENTED vs HUMAN-REPLACEMENT IS A COMPLEX AI STRATEGY
Most AI projects today as either augmenting or replacing humans
Technology has augmented, shifted or replaced human tasks for a while, this isn’t anything new
Management/owners have tried to replace workers with technology for a long time
Pricing will tell you something about the goal of the technology (e.g. seat vs. task)
Now we’re starting to see the psychology of aligning AI to business goals - augmenting, shifting or replacing
The hyperbole of AI funding is to convey direct lines to AI success (whatever success is - AGI, No Coders, No Operations, No Entry-Level, etc..)
“How do we replace the employees with AI?”
The path to get there isn’t well defined. The politics to get there isn’t defined by technology.
Will the current economic downturn accelerate this line of questioning / strategy?
The Bed Bath and Beyond 20% coupon test.
“The $billion dollar company with one employee.”

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28min
April 16, 2025Deep Learning Meets CyberSecurity
Evan Powell (@epowell101, CEO at DeepTempo) talks about the intersection of CyberSecurity, Deep Learning and new AI techniques to improve operational security.
SHOW: 915
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #915 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
DeepTempo website
The Promise of CyberSecurity Foundation Models
Evan on The Cloudcast #165

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since we last spoke in your StackStorm days. Give everyone a quick introduction.
Topic 2 - Today's topic is the intersection of Deep Learning and CyberSecurity. Let’s start at a high level. As someone who has founded several companies, what’s interesting enough in this space for you to jump in?
Topic 3 - I talk to many customers about AI and use cases. If they don’t have a leading use case, I often ask where they have a lot of data, and they want insights data. The needle in the haystack scenario. It could be text, unstructured data, log files, data lakes, just about anything. Is this scenario correct when it comes to CyberSecurity? What are the leading use cases?
Topic 4 - I’ve been reading and hearing how AI has been a boon for hackers; what are your thoughts on the ever-lasting cat-and-mouse game in the security space and how it has evolved with AI?
Topic 5 - Let’s dig into the tech; at DeepTempo’s core, you use Deep Learning and specific foundational models. You wrote a great blog recently on Cybersecurity models. When folks hear the term foundational or frontier model, they think of LLMs and GenAI. How is this different?
Topic 6 - Is this a SaaS model? On-prem? Where does the tech sit and why?

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28min
April 13, 2025Tempering AI Expectations in the Enterprise
Are companies starting to get concerned that AI isn’t meeting expectations? Concern is a part of any new technology adoption curve, but let’s explore some areas where expectations might not be meeting results.
SHOW: 914
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #914 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW SPONSORS:
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SHOW NOTES:
Why AI isn’t meeting expectations (The Artificial Intelligence Enterprise)

IS THREE YEARS ENOUGH TIME FOR ANY TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?
Costs are still high, and positive ROI is still evolving
The technology stack and standards are still evolving
Enterprise expectations are being confused with consumer expectations
AI predictions and timelines are overly aggressive
How is anymore measuring AI success?
The AI future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed
“AI First” strategies are following “Cloud First” strategies - unevenly and distributed
Most people don’t like to talk about the augment vs. replace issue
Miscellaneous stuff:
ChatGPT is the fasting growing tech ever
AGI will be here at any moment
For the first 18+ months, it was only an OpenAI + NVIDIA market
All software development will be done by AI
There will be $1B companies with 1 person
GenAI, Frontier Models, Open Source Models, Agents, etc.
Deep Seek, MCP, etc.

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