Podcast Episodes

Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else)

Episode 330

#330: In this short episode, Darin and Viktor reflect on the holiday season.

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Published on 5 hours ago

Vibe Coding and The Technical Debt Time Bomb

Episode 329

#329: Vibe coding - the practice of casually prompting AI to generate code solutions - has become increasingly popular, but its limitations become apparent when applications need to scale beyond pers…

Published on 1 week ago

The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions

Episode 328

#328: The build versus buy decision isn't as binary as most companies think. Every technology choice involves elements of both - you might use Linux (buy) but still configure and customize it extensi…

Published on 2 weeks ago

When AI Tools Go Rogue

Episode 327

#327: When AI tools suggest putting glue on pizza, it's a harmless laugh. But when autonomous AI agents start managing your infrastructure, the stakes become much higher. The reality is that current …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead

Episode 326

#326: Microservices architecture has evolved far beyond simple distributed systems, but most development teams are still rebuilding the same foundational patterns over and over again. Mark Fussell, c…

Published on 4 weeks ago

DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review

Episode 325

#325: KubeCon NA 2025 wrapped in Atlanta with unseasonably cold weather and some significant shifts in the cloud native ecosystem. The conference showed fewer vendors backing CNCF projects on the sho…

Published on 1 month ago

Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling with Zesty

Episode 324

#324: Kubernetes has reached a mature state where boring releases signal stability rather than stagnation. While the platform continues evolving with features like in-place resource updates in versio…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding

Episode 323

#323: Vibe coding - the practice of giving AI a high-level description and letting it build applications unsupervised - has become increasingly popular among non-developers looking to quickly prototy…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

How to Build Apps That Never Go Down Even When Servers Die

Episode 322

#322: Peer-to-peer technology represents a fundamental shift in how we think about data sovereignty and application architecture. Rather than relying on centralized servers and trusting specific endp…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Model Context Protocol for Standardizing AI Tool Integration

Episode 321

#321: Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a fundamental shift in how AI agents interact with tools and systems. Rather than forcing models to guess the best approach for tasks like creating AWS r…

Published on 2 months ago