Platform Engineering, with Ben Good

Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms tha ... Show More

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? ... Show More

Ricardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for sever ... Show More

SIG Network is completely rethinking the way you define groupings of applications (Service) and get traffic sent to them (Ingress) by building the Service APIs, a new set of primitives which are better suited to how different groups of users interact with them. Bowei Du is a Tech ... Show More

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with James Mikrut about Payload, how Payload isn’t just a CMS, where Payload fits in a tech stack, why they picked Drizzle for an ORM, what Payload Cloud is, and where’s the Rails for JavaScript? Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 0 ... Show More

In this episode, we'll explore how the new Amazon EKS Dashboard solves key challenges in managing Kubernetes at scale across multiple AWS accounts and regions. We'll discuss how it provides centralized visibility into cluster health, versions, and costs - enabling teams to improv ... Show More

Lukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of kubernetes vclusters (virtual clusters). A vcluster is a kubernetes cluster that runs kubernetes application on a host kubernetes cluster. The conversation covers: vcluster basics; sharing models; what ... Show More

Scott and CJ chat with Paul Copplestone, CEO and co-founder of Supabase, about the journey of building an open source alternative to Firebase. Learn about the tech stack, the story behind their excellent documentation, and how Supabase balances business goals with open-source val ... Show More

Simon is joined by Stephen Liedig to discuss the evolution of serverless technology and its impact on application development, exploring benefits like scalability, cost optimization, and faster dev cycles. They delve into key services and concepts in serverless design, including ... Show More

It's happening. Everything is happening, and we're opining about it. Plus, our excitement over Google I/O. Links and Show Notes: Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting Clarifying some changes we made in Calendar. Apple TV+ Is Finally Availa ... Show More

Tobie Langel, Open source strategist and Principal at UnlockOpen, joins Chris, Feross, and Amal to discuss recent widespread incidents affecting the JavaScript community (and breaking CI builds) around the globe. Two widely used npm libraries were self-sabotaged by their single m ... Show More

Andy Suderman, CTO of Fairwinds, joins host Robert Blumen to talk about standing up a kubernetes cluster. Their discussion covers build-your-own versus managed clusters provided by cloud services, and how to determine the number of kubernetes clusters an organization needs. Andy ... Show More

Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of backgro ... Show More