The Cloudcast

10 Questions about what Cloud 2.0 might look like

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Following on the discussion of the Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0 transition, we explore what that future cloud might look like. SHOW: 996SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Th...

The Cloudcast Playbook - Lessons from 1000 Shows

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After 1000+ shows of The Cloudcast, when critical lessons have we learned about the industry, our our journey, and tips for anyone in tech. SHOW: 995...

It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

15 years ago, when we started The Cloudcast the definition of cloud was pretty clear cut. But now in 2026, the rules are all different and a new era o...

RAG That Survives Production

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 992SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #992 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - &...

20 Years of OSS Databases

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Zairsev (@PeterZaitsev, Founder of @Percona) talks about the history of OSS databases, and how AI is reshaping the demands on modern databases. ...

AI & Cloud Trends for December 2025

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from De...

Cloud and AI Predictions for 2026

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian make some bold predictions for the 2026 Cloud and AI markets, as well as reviewing the biggest issues going into 2026.  SHOW: 989SHOW...

The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A lot changed in the world of Cloud and AI this year. And then it changed some more, and some more, and so more. The only constant was change. SHOW: ...

2025 State of AI in Review

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian review the Year in AI, hand out AI awards, and discuss the biggest AI trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.S...

How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If an AGI falls in the woods and nobody can define it, did it actually fall? This week we make an exact prediction of when AGI will happen, and the 10...

2025 State of Cloud in Review

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made ...

Will there be a market for expert AI agents?

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years?...

How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data...

The Future of PaaS

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been nearly a decade since the last evolution of the PaaS platform, but AI has the potential to reshape and evolve this value concept. Let&a...

AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.SHOW: 981SHOW...

Things to be Thankful for

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. SHOW: 980SHOW TRANSCRIP...

Time Series for AI

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 979SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #979 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - &...

After NVIDIA's Latest Earnings

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once again NVIDIA had a record earnings quarter (Q3FY26), but the strength of their on-going success will be dependent on many factors that may or may...

Shadow AI

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW: 977Rohan Sathe (@rssathe, CEO @NightfallAI) discusses the rise of Shadow AI, where employees unknowingly leak sensitive corporate data through g...

Rational and Irrational AI numbers

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the current level of AI funding and investment rational or irrational? Is it possible that it’s both at the same time? Let’s look at some numbe...

2025 State of APIs

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs. SHOW: 975SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The C...

All the new AI stuff all at once

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the history of technology era changes, things tend to change slowly at first, and then quickly all at once. We’ve now reached the beginning of th...

AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.SHOW: 973SHOW ...

Is Amazon the new Cisco?

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patterns in technology tend to eventually repeat themselves (or at least rhyme), and Amazon is beginning to repeat some of the patterns of Cisco from ...

AI Data Analytics

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Soham Mazumdar, CEO @WisdomAI_inc, discusses how organizations can break free from the "drowning in data but starving for insights" paradox ...

Does Your AI Project Need Help?

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why are 95% of AI projects struggling to create positive ROI, according to a recent MIT study? Do businesses need help getting those first few AI proj...

The Intersection of Cybersecurity and AI

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Monzy Merza (@monzymerza, CEO/Founder @Crogl) talks about build a next-generation Enterprise SOC by leveraging AI to stay ahead of Cybersecurity threa...

Something's Gotta Give on AI Economics

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when the biggest technology trend is built on economics that don't make any sense when viewed end-to-end? Eventually, some aspect ha...

Agentic AI Coding & Predictive Software Quality

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animesh Koratana (@akoratana, Founder of @playerzero_ai) discusses how agentic AI is transforming software quality assurance through predictive code s...

The 5-10-85 Reality of Enterprise AI

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three years since the launch of ChatGPT, what does the landscape of Enterprise AI look like today? What’s working, what’s struggling and what’s ...

Using AI Reasoning to Prevent AI Scams

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Lefort (CEO, @StrongestLayer) discusses how LLM-powered reasoning is transforming phishing security from reactive pattern-matching to predictive ...

Will Cloud Providers start acquiring SaaS?

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As cloud matures, could the hyperscale cloud providers start looking to acquire SaaS providers to build out a bundled application portfolio? Or are th...

AI & Cloud Trends for September 2025

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.SHOW: 963SHO...

The AI Awkward Years

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between the bold predictions, VC economics, and rising usage-patterns are stories of limited ROIs, undefined use-cases and associated job losses. AI i...

AI Agents for Unstructured Data

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephan Donze (@sdonze CEO @AODocs), discusses the enterprise unstructured data crisis, where 80% of business data remains untapped due to legacy syst...

Two Obseervations about Smart People and AI

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that smart people both love and hate AI? Does it matter how smart you are, or just how you interact with AI? SHOW: 960SHOW TRANSCR...

The Return of Bare Metal?

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal.io, discusses the resurgence of bare metal infrastructure driven by AI workloads, digital sovereignt...

Exploring Oracle Cloud's Evolution

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did Oracle Cloud (with OpenAI) suddenly command the news cycle, with a chance to potentially overtake much larger clouds in a few years? Let’s e...

Kubernetes-native Continuous Testing

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ole Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditio...

Where is the Android of AI?

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple’s iPhone had the Android ecosystem, but where is the Android of AI going to come from to challenge the OpenAI/NVIDIA duopoly? Let’s explore ...

AI & Cloud Trends for August 2025

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Aug...

Every Week Feels like an AI Gartner Hype Cycle

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.  SHOW: 954SHOW TRANS...

The Modernization of FinOps

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Kinha - Field CTO @DoITInt | FinOps Foundation Board Member discusses how the relationship between technology and financial accountability has ev...

Transitioning from the Cloud era to the AI era

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we begin to transition from the Cloud era to the AI era, what types of changes can we expect to see happen in the market, within our businesses, an...

Looking back on Industry Market Leaders

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a very long roadtrip, let’s explore the lessons we can learn from some of the greatest business models in tech and how or if they apply to the...

Kubernetes in the Era of GPUs

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Haseeb Budhani (@haseebbudhani, CEO @rafaysystemsinc) discusses the evolution from traditional DevOps to platform engineering and what "Enterpris...

Enterprise AI Platforms

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shay Levi (@shaylevi2, CEO @UnframeAI) & Larissa Schneider (COO @UnframeAI) discuss the complexities of building an enterprise-grade AI platform. ...

The beginning of Cloud 2.0 is here

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are we beginning to see the dawn of a 2nd phase of Cloud Computing, as AI begins to become a workload that impacts every aspect of the previous era of...

AI & Cloud Trends for July 2025

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelpt) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Ju...

Is AWS entering their Hybrid phase?

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The hardest thing for any growing company to do is manage the transition from hypergrowth to the dual tracks of growth and stability. AWS is entering ...

Improving AI Through Data Quality

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) talks about the impact of data quality on AI, how unstructured data can be improved, and how moni...

How will Businesses react to AI Agent success?

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the AI Agent hype ends up being real, how will businesses manage AI Agents from the perspective of people vs. non-people? SHOW: 944SHOW TRANSCRIPT...

Building Private GenAI stacks

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Marsden (@lmarsden, CEO @HelixML) talks about Private GenAI. What is it? Why do you need it? We also discuss integration into CI/CD pipelines, th...

Should you join an AI Startup?

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the rewards of a startup are only going to the founders and AI researchers, then what incentives are there for all the other roles? Has AI broken t...

Is Cursor having their Docker moment?

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the big changes happening around AI developer-assistants, across Cursor, Windsurf,...

The Importance of Early AI Adoption

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the Enterprise, there is a spectrum forming of aggressive adopters and passive resistors to AI usage. While there are no best practices yet, C-suit...

Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Julian LaNeve (@JulianLaneve, CTO @astronomerio) discusses data pipelines, Apache Airflow, Astronomer’s managed offering, and the benefits of data p...

A Mid-Year Cloud Check-In

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we get to the mid-point of 2025, let’s take a look at where the cloud is - what’s doing well, what’s going through some changes, and what mig...

AI & Cloud Trends for June 2025

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from June 2025.SHOW: 937SHOW TRA...

AI-Native Applications vs. AI Add-On Applications

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As AI evolves into the Enterprise, will we see greater uptake of AI-native applications or AI add-on applications? Briandon Whichard (@bwhichard) and ...

Trustworthy AI Agents

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO/Founder @HasuraQL) discusses the importance of reliability and trustworthiness for both generative and agentic AI. We dis...

The Rapid Change of Cloud Dynamics

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are the dynamics of the hyperscale cloud providers changing? Will the leaders of the last decade continue for the next 3-5 years, or the next decade? ...

Expanding AI Agents with MCP Servers & API Platforms

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Yu (Co-Founder @SpeakeasyDev) discusses the rise of MCP servers, API integration into AI systems, including SDK generation, and the emergence of...

Father's Day and First Jobs

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Father's Day rolls around, we explore some tales from people taking on their first professional jobs, and how those lessons can relate to mana...

The State of Cloud Native for 2025

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tobi Knaup (@superguenter, VP/GM of Cloud Native @Nutanix) talks about the evolution of the cloud-native ecosystem, the intersection of AI and Kuberne...

There Ain't Gonna Be Any Middle Anymore

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we try and predict the future, we explore the possibilities of technology augmenting or replacing the middle of the bell curve. What has history ta...

AI & Cloud Trends for May 2025

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from May 2025, including Google ...

Sam, Jony, McGuffin and Vaporware

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is it ever a good time for a company to announce vaporware? Let’s discuss the pros and cons of pre-announcements, vaporware, and the strategy of pro...

Preventing AI Hallucinations

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anand Kannappan (@anandnk24, CEO @PatronusAI) talks about evaluating AI models for hallucinations, managing data quality, automating the process, and ...

AI and the 95% vs 5% debate

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The industry is debating whether AI should be viewed as augmenting or replacing human-centric tasks. But we don’t yet have a framework to discuss th...

Universal Data Representation for AI

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joel Christner, (@joelchristner, Founder/CEO at @viewyourdata) discusses the complexities of data management in AI, structured and unstructured data, ...

Where do Developer-Assistants go next with AI?

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where does the next phase of AI-assistants for software development go next? Is it an evolution of developer productivity, or a complete rethinking of...

Building Customer-First Products

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Siqi Chen (@blader, CEO/CFO @Runwayco), talks about his journey from JPL developer to Founder of a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) startup....

WhyQ vs. It is what it is

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tech CEOs are making bold proclamations, from WhyQ to It is what it is. How will companies navigate this spectrum as they seek innovation, accountabil...

AI & Cloud Trends for April 2025

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from April 2025, including OpenAI, MCP, VibeCoding and Hypersc...

The Early AI Journey and Learning Curve

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 sprea...

DevOps Meets Platform Engineering

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Freydl (CEO/Founder @codiacio) talks about the challenges of blending IaaC, DevOps and Platform Engineering to drive efficient software developme...

Five Thoughts on AI Agents

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. SH...

The Intersection of AI and APIs

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Pechacek (Head of Product, API Collaboration Core @getpostman) talks about APIs, AI, and MCP (Model Context Protocol). We cover what is top of ...

AI Augmenting vs. Replacing

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Deep Learning Meets CyberSecurity

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Powell (@epowell101, CEO at DeepTempo) talks about the intersection of CyberSecurity, Deep Learning and new AI techniques to improve operational ...

Tempering AI Expectations in the Enterprise

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 expl...

AI Agents vs. AI Assistants

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Lee, (@_dan_lee_, CEO Nooks.ai, @JoinNooks) talks about agentic AI vs. AI assistants, their differences, and we explore ROI in this space vs. GenA...

How Things Can Change for the 800lb Gorilla in Tech

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible for the 900lb gorilla of an industry to stumble or fall from it's heights? Let's explore how emerging trends can knock in...

AI & Cloud Trends for March 2025

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March 2025 including recent M&A activity.SHOW: 911SHOW...

That Feeling of Losing Technical Knowledge

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you consider moving from a technical role to a lesser technical role? What are the trade-offs? What new skills do you need to evolve...

Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes S...

Are Acquisitions Making a Comeback?

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re starting to see some hints that M&A activities might start heating up in the tech sector again. So what should you expect if a company get...

Migrating from Infrastructure as Code

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what’s...

Decoding Corporate Communications

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How well does your company handle internal and external corporate communications? Are company town halls a nightmare? How should you engage with them ...

AI Impacts Across Organizations & Startups

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Duren, Sr. Practice Manager, AI & Data @wwt_inc & Druce MacFarlane, Product @Infoblox talks about the intersection of AI, Startups, and En...

Five Things I Did This Week

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Does your management chain know what you’re doing to bring value to your company, your group or just your role? How do you communicate value for acc...

Cloud & AI News Trends for February 2025

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from February 2025 including NVIDIA’s earnings,  Hashicorp, Intel’s CE...

Bathing in the Confusion around GenAI

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Right now the news around GenAI seems scattered, all of the place, and confusing. Let’s dig into what’s working, what’s not, and where some futu...

Developer Assistance with Coding Co-Pilots

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.SHOW: 901SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Clou...

What is your industry's DeepSeek moment?

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We reached show #900!! We explore what happens when your industry experiences it’s DeepSeek moment, and how prepared you are across technology, orga...

VMware Migrations

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Chief Product Officer at @Platform9Sys) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thought...

How will AI impact your IT budget?

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? SHOW...

The Path to Tech Executive Roles

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drew Saur (Founder, Drew Saur Coaching) talks about the state of the job market in 2025, how delivery and measurements have changed, how to stand out,...

Welcome to the Bi-Modal Cloud Era

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a decade of Bi-Modal IT discussion, we’ve now reached the era of Bi-Modal Cloud. Balancing traditional CPU-based cloud resources is now clashi...