The New Stack Podcast
Episodes
JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
JetBrains is positioning itself as the last major independent AI coding-tool vendor in a market increasingly tied to hyperscalers and foundation model...
Why Block gave Goose to the Agentic AI Foundation
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What began as an internal developer tool atBlockhas evolved into a broader open-source initiative with industry backing. Goose, Block’s AI coding ag...
Fivetran's CPO: closed data stacks won't survive the agent era
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Fivetran Chief Product Officer Anjan Kundavaram argued that enterprise data systems are unprepared for the scale of AI-driv...
The new FinOps problem isn't cloud bills
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Finout co-founder and CEO Roi Ravhon and Google Cloud FinOps lead Pathik Sharma discussed how FinOps is rapidly evolving fo...
Microsoft's answer to Kubernetes sprawl: Staged rollouts & cross-cluster workload mobility
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Managing Kubernetes at fleet scale introduces significant complexity, especially as organizations expand from a few clusters to hundreds or thousands ...
Why long-running AI agents break on HTTP and how Ably is fixing it
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably, explains how infrastructure originally built for human collaboration is now ...
Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Agentic AI is advancing rapidly, with open-source projects racing to keep pace with real-world deployment. To accelerate progress, the Linux Foundatio...
Fresh data has us asking, does AI demand Kubernetes?
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes is rapidly emerging as the de facto operating system for AI, with two-thirds of organizations using it for generative AI inference and 82% ...
How SUSE positions itself as the infrastructure layer for the AI era
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers,Pete Smailsoutlines howSUSEis evolving from its Linux roots into an AI-native infrastructure platform. Speaking...
AWS Strands and the case for intent-driven tool design
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, AWS developer advocate Morgan Willis demonstrates Strands Agents, an open source agentic framework with rapid...
Why Broadcom is betting on a private cloud comeback
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is evolving from a turnkey infrastructure stack into a modern application platform, balancing simplicity wi...
Why Broadcom gave Velero to the CNCF Sandbox — and what it means for Kubernetes data protection
25 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcom continues to expand its role as a major contributor to cloud-native open source, particularly within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (C...
Why AI engineering needs old-school discipline
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Nimisha Asthagiri of ThoughtWorks explores why many AI initiatives stall between proof of concept and product...
Jim Bugwadia on why finding a Kubernetes problem is only half the battle for Kyverno users
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Graduating within the CNCF marks a major milestone for an open source project, signaling not just technical maturity but strong governance, security p...
How AWS Bedrock is shaping Model Context Protocol
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the MCP Summit in New York City, AWS’s Luca Chang, a Bedrock team member and MCP specification maintainer, discussed the rapid rise of the Model ...
AI at the edge with Microsoft's Jorge Palma
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AtKubeCon Europe 2026,Jorge Palmaoutlined how Microsoft is advancing AI operations across cloud and edge environments. He demonstrated an agent capabl...
As agentic AI explodes, Amazon doubles down on MCP
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the MCP Summit inNew York City,Clare LiguoriofAmazon Web Servicesdiscussed the rapid rise of theModel Context Protocol(MCP), now a leading way to c...
A year in, Google wants its Axion processors to feel like a scheduling decision
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon Europe, Google Cloud’s Jago Macleod and Abdel Sghiouar argued that adopting Arm for Kubernetes workloads has shifted from a complex migra...
Can you make Kubernetes invisible? Here's why AWS is on a mission to do it.
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Jesse Butler, principal product manager for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, shares his vision for simplifying ...
The next stages of AI conformance in the cloud-native, open-source world
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Running AI models on Kubernetes has historically been inconsistent, with workloads behaving differently across cloud providers due to variations in GP...
Microsoft wants to make service mesh invisible
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon EU 2026, Mitch Connors of Microsoft outlined a vision to make service meshes effectively invisible to users. Now working on Azure Kubernete...
AWS EKS Auto Mode wants to end Kubernetes toil — one node at a time
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, Alex Kestner, principal product manager for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), discussed how ...
Edge-forward: Akamai eyes sweet spot between centralized & decentralized AI inference
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Lena Hall and Thorsten Hans of Akamai outlined how the company is evolving from a CDN provider into a develop...
Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Brendan Burns discusses how AI is reshaping Kubernet...
AI can write your infrastructure code. There's a reason most teams won't let it.
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder of Spacelift and OpenTofu, explains how AI is transforming infrastructure as code...
OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Woodson Martin, CEO ofOutSystems, argues that successful enterprise AI deployments rarely rely on standalone agents. Instead, production systems combi...
Inception Labs says its diffusion LLM is 10x faster than Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On a recent episode of the The New Stack Agents, Inception Labs CEO Stefano Ermon introduced Mercury 2, a large language model built on diffusion rath...
NanoClaw's answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
OnThe New Stack Agents, Gavriel Cohen discusses why he built NanoClaw, a minimalist alternative to OpenClaw, after discovering security and architectu...
The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks after Dynatrace acquired DevCycle, Michael Beemer and Andrew Norris discussed on The New Stack Makers podcast how feature flagging is beco...
The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dynatrace is at a pivotal point, expanding beyond traditional observability into a platform designed for autonomous operations and security powered by...
You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matan-Paul Shetrit, Director of Product Management at Writer, argues that people must take responsibility for how they use AI. If someone produces poo...
GitLab CEO on why AI isn't helping enterprise ship code faster
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI coding assistants are boosting developer productivity, but most enterprises aren’t shipping software any faster. GitLab CEO Bill Staples says the...
The enterprise is not ready for "the rise of the developer"
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace argues that enterprises are unprepared for a major shift brought on by AI: the rise of the developer. Speaking at Dynatrace...
Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the era of agentic AI, attention has largely focused on data itself, while metadata has remained a neglected concern. Junping (JP) Du, founder and ...
CTO Chris Aniszczyk on the CNCF push for AI interoperability
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Aniszczyk, co-founder and CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), argues that AI agents resemble microservices at a surface level, ...
Solving the Problems that Accompany API Sprawl with AI
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
API sprawl creates hidden security risks and missed revenue opportunities when organizations lose visibility into the APIs they build. According to IB...
CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A CloudBees survey reveals that enterprise migration projects often fail to deliver promised modernization benefits. In 2024, 57% of enterprises spent...
Human Cognition Can’t Keep Up with Modern Networks. What’s Next?
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
IBM’s recent acquisitions of Red Hat, HashiCorp, and its planned purchase of Confluent reflect a deliberate strategy to build the infrastructure req...
From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Zilka, founder of MyDecisive.ai and former Hortonworks CPO, argues that most observability vendors now offer essentially identical, reactive dashb...
Why You Can't Build AI Without Progressive Delivery
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s claim that AI-based development requires progressive delivery frames a conversation between analyst James Governor...
How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most enterprises today run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single platform, creating significant operational challenges. Ac...
Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs?
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GPUs dominate today’s AI landscape, but Google argues they are not necessary for every workload. As AI adoption has grown, customers have increasing...
Breaking Data Team Silos Is the Key to Getting AI to Production
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI services, but the teams responsible for running them in production are seeing familiar problems reemerge—most no...
Why AI Parallelization Will Be One of the Biggest Challenges of 2026
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, argues that the biggest winners in today’s AI boom resemble the “picks and shovels” sellers of the California Gold R...
How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many enterprises now run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single environment. According to Nutanix, about 60% of organizatio...
Kubernetes GPU Management Just Got a Major Upgrade
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia Distinguished Engineer Kevin Klues noted that low-level systems work is invisible when done well and highly visible when it fails — a dynamic...
The Rise of the Cognitive Architect
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI ...
Why the CNCF's New Executive Director is Obsessed With Inference
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Bryce, the new CNCF executive director, argues that inference—not model training—will define the next decade of computing. Speaking at Ku...
Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmente...
How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain with Deterministic Testing
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The etcd project — a distributed key-value store older than Kubernetes — recently faced significant challenges due to maintainer turnover and the ...
Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager?
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helm — originally a hackathon project called Kate’s Place — turned 10 in 2025, marking the milestone with the release of Helm 4, its first major...
All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes has relied on role-based access control (RBAC) since 2017, but its simplicity limits what developers can express, said Micah Hausler, princ...
Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JupyterLite, a fully browser-based distribution of JupyterLab, is enabling new levels of global scalability in technical education. Developed by Sylva...
2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AWS’s approach to Elastic Kubernetes Service has evolved significantly since its 2018 launch. According to Mike Stefanik, Senior Manager of Product ...
From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of ...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AWS re:Invent has long featured CTO Werner Vogels’ closing keynote, but this year he signaled it may be his last, emphasizing it’s time for “you...
How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DevOps practitioners — whether developers, operators, SREs or business stakeholders — increasingly rely on telemetry to guide decisions, yet face ...
How Kubernetes Became the New Linux
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Major banks once built their own Linux kernels because no distributions existed, but today commercial distros — and Kubernetes — are universal. At...
Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clockwork began with a narrow goal—keeping clocks synchronized across servers—but soon realized that its precise latency measurements could reveal...
Jupyter Deploy: the New Middle Ground between Laptops and Enterprise
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At JupyterCon 2025, Jupyter Deploy was introduced as an open source command-line tool designed to make cloud-based Jupyter deployments quick and acc...
From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview at JupyterCon, Brian Granger — co-creator of Project Jupyter and senior principal technologist at AWS — reflected on Jupyter’s e...
Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas’?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jupyter AI v3 marks a major step forward in integrating intelligent coding assistance directly into JupyterLab. Discussed by AWS engineers David Qiu a...
Stop Writing Code, Start Writing Docs
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Podcast, hosts Alex Williams and Frederic Lardinois spoke with Keith Ballinger, Vice President and General Manager of...
Why PyTorch Won
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, Luca Antiga — CTO of Lightning AI and head of the PyTorch Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council...
Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on Why AI Coding Doesn't Help You Ship Faster
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harness co-founder Jyoti Bansal highlights a growing issue in software development: while AI tools help generate more code, they often create bottlene...
How Agentgateway Solves Agentic AI’s Connectivity Challenges
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The agentic AI space faces challenges around secure, governed connectivity between agents, tools, large language models, and microservices. To address...
Sentry Founder: AI Patch Generation Is 'Awful' Right Now
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Cramer, founder and chief product officer of Sentry, remains skeptical about generative AI's current ability to replace human engineers, particu...
Why Linear Built an API For Agents
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cursor, the AI code editor, recently integrated with Linear, a project management tool, enabling developers to assign tasks directly to Cursor's backg...
ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Agents, ServiceNow CTO and co-founder Pat Casey discusses why the company runs 90% of its workloads—including AI in...
How the EU’s Cyber Act Burdens Lone Open Source Developers
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union’s upcoming Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes into effect in October 2026, with the remainder of the requirements going into effec...
How Warp Went From Terminal To Agentic Development Environment
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’sThe New Stack Agents, Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, discussed the launch of Warp Code, the latest evolution of the Warp termina...
The Linux Foundation In The Age Of AI
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent episode of The New Stack Agents from the Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, discusse...
Is Your Data Strategy Ready for the Agentic AI Era?
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise AI is still in its infancy, with less than 1% of enterprise data currently used to fuel AI, according to Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore. Whi...
MCP Security Risks Multiply With Each New Agent Connection
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data, but its security has lagged behind. In Th...
Why Your ‘Data Exhaust’ Is Your Most Valuable Asset
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Auradkar, executive VP and GM at Salesforce, grew up in India with a deep passion for cricket, where his love for the game sparked an early inte...
The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Scott Carey, editor-in-chief of LeadDev, discussed their first AI Impact Report, which explores how e...
Confronting AI’s Next Big Challenge: Inference Compute
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While AI training garners most of the spotlight — and investment — the demands ofAI inferenceare shaping up to be an even bigger challenge. In thi...
Databricks VP: Don’t Try to Speed AI Evolution through Brute Force
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks and a former neuroscientist, reflects on the evolution of AI, neural ...
How Fal.ai Went From Inference Optimization to Hosting Image and Video Models
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fal.ai, once focused on machine learning infrastructure, has evolved into a major player in generative media. In this episode of The New Stack Agents,...
Why AI Agents Need a New Kind of Browser
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional headless browsers weren’t built for AI agents, often breaking when web elements shift even slightly. Paul Klein IV, founder of Browserba...
How AWS is Working to Help Developers with AI Reality
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent episode of The New Stack Agents livestream, Antje Barth, AWS Developer Advocate for Generative AI, discussed the growing developer interes...
How Shortwave Wants To Reinvent Email With AI
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Agents, Andrew Lee, co-founder of Shortwave and Firebase, discusses the evolution of his Gmail-centric email client i...
Cracking the Complexity: Teleport CEO Pushes Identity-First Security
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this on-the-road episode of The New Stack Makers, Editor in Chief Heather Joslyn speaks with Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and co-founder of Teleport, from the...
No SSH? What is Talos, this Linux Distro for Kubernetes?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Container-based Linux distributions are gaining traction, especially for edge deployments that demand lightweight and secure operating systems. Talos ...
Aptori Is Building an Agentic AI Security Engineer
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI agents hold the promise of continuously testing, scanning, and fixing code for security vulnerabilities, but we're still progressing toward that vi...
The AI Code Generation Problem Nobody's Talking About
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Nitric CEO Steve Demchuk discusses how the frustration of building frontend apps within rigid FinTech environm...
The New Bottleneck: AI That Codes Faster Than Humans Can Review
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CodeRabbit, led by founder Harjot Gill, is tackling one of software development's biggest bottlenecks: the human code review process. While AI coding ...
Google Cloud Next Wrap-Up
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the close of this year’s Google Cloud Next, The New Stack’s Alex Williams, AI editor Frederic Lardinois, and analyst Janakiram MSV discussed th...
Agentic AI and A2A in 2025: From Prompts to Processes
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Agentic AI represents the next phase beyond generative AI, promising systems that not only generate content but also take autonomous actions within bu...
Your AI Coding Buddy Is Always Available at 2 a.m.
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aja Hammerly, director of developer relations at Google, sees AI as the always-available coding partner developers have long wished for—especially i...
Google AI Infrastructure PM On New TPUs, Liquid Cooling and More
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Google Cloud Next '25, the company introduced Ironwood, its most advanced custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to date. With 9,216 chips per pod del...
Google Cloud Therapist on Bringing AI to Cloud Native Infrastructure
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Google Cloud Next, Bobby Allen, Group Product Manager for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), emphasized GKE’s foundational role in supporting AI pla...
VMware's Kubernetes Evolution: Quashing Complexity
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Without this, developers waste time managing infrastructure instead of focusing on code. VMware addresses this with VCF, a pre-integrated Kubernetes s...
Prequel: Software Errors Be Gone
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prequel is launching a new developer-focused service aimed at democratizing software error detection—an area typically dominated by large cloud prov...
Arm’s Open Source Leader on Meeting the AI Challenge
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Arm, open source is the default approach, with proprietary software requiring justification, says Andrew Wafaa, fellow and senior director of softw...
Why Kubernetes Cost Optimization Keeps Failing
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s uncertain economy, businesses are tightening costs, including for Kubernetes (K8s) operations, which are notoriously difficult to optimiz...
How Heroku Is ‘Re-Platforming’ Its Platform
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heroku has been undergoing a major transformation, re-platforming its entire Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering over the past year and a half. This...
Container Security and AI: A Talk with Chainguard's Founder
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Alex Williams speaks with Ville Aikas, Chainguard founder and e...
Kelsey Hightower, AWS's Eswar Bala on Open Source's Evolution
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a candid episode of The New Stack Makers, Kubernetes pioneer Kelsey Hightower and AWS’s Eswar Bala explored the evolving relationship between en...
The Kro Project: Giving Kubernetes Users What They Want
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a rare show of collaboration, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have joined forces on Kro — the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator — an open source, ...