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The New New User Interface: AI in your brain

Episode 26

The capability to map brain activity to language isn’t just another UI shift—it’s a paradigm shift in how humans and machines might communicate. If y…

9 months, 1 week ago

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The Impact of Inference: Reliability

Episode 25

Traditional reliability meant consistency. Given identical inputs, systems produced identical outputs. Costs were stable and behavior predictable. In…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Impact of Inference: Performance

Episode 24

Traditional performance meant deterministic response times. Identical inputs produced near-identical execution times. Optimizations reduced latency, …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Impact of Inference: Availability

Episode 23

What does "availability" mean in a world of AI inferencing and ever-shifting workloads? It’s no longer just about servers responding or apps being on…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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Shift left into runtime: Vibe coding and AI guardrails

Episode 22

Coding pipelines are evolving and AI agents are taking the wheel. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Joel Moses teams up with Buu Lam to div…

10 months ago

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Taking a holiday break – Pop Goes the Stack returns after New Year’s!

Hi, Pop Goes the Stack listeners! The holiday season is here, and we’re taking a short break to recharge, enjoy time with loved ones, and maybe step …

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Reshaping the web for AI agents and LLMs

Episode 21

The web we built—a tangle of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, APIs, and SEO quirks—has always been messy. But with AI agents and real-time apps now consuming t…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Five nines of wrong: Detecting drift and errors in AI systems

Episode 20

Uptime used to mean reliability. But in the LLM era, five nines just means your liar is always available. Real reliability now includes correctness a…

11 months ago

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Now you see me, now you don't: Ephemeral Auth and AI agents

Episode 19

Agents are popping up everywhere: tiny bots spinning up for a task, then dying off. They shouldn’t carry long-lived credentials any more than you car…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Holiday hiatus: Revisiting tech trends, AI, and more!

Hi everyone! This is Lori MacVittie, host of Pop Goes the Stack. This holiday week, we’re pressing pause to recharge, spend time with loved ones, and…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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