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AI & Cloud News of the Month - Feb 2026

This episode marks the transition from The Cloudcast to The Reasoning Show, focusing more on AI and cloud topics. Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss recent trends in AI, the evolution of tech teams, and the shifting landscape of ... Show More

42m 3s

Feb 22

What's Your Token Budget?

This episode explores the evolving economics of AI development, the rising costs associated with AI agents, and the implications for businesses and developers. It highlights the shift from centralized to decentralized computing, the importance of understanding token budgets, and ... Show More

18m 58s

Feb 18

Evaluating AI Models in 2026

Aaron and Brian review some of the latest AI model releases and discuss how they would evaluate them through the lens of an Enterprise AI Architect. SHOW: 1003SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #1003 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT O ... Show More

28m 59s

Sep 2025

what the heck is GEO (AI search, rankings, $$$)

Join me as I chat with Cody Schneider about AI Search. Cody explains that while AI search (GEO) is generating buzz, it currently represents a small portion of overall search volume compared to traditional search engines. The value lies in highly qualified leads, with conversion r ... Show More

23m 49s

May 2022

Insights And Advice On Building A Data Lake Platform From Someone Who Learned The Hard Way

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Designing a data platform is a complex and iterative undertaking which requires accounting for many conflicting needs. Designing a platform that relies on a data lake as its central architectural tenet adds additional la ... Show More

58m 11s

Mar 2024

Open sourcing AI app development with Harrison Chase from LangChain

Companies are employing AI agents and co-pilots to help their teams increase efficiency and accuracy, but developing apps that are trained properly can require a skill set many enterprise teams don’t have. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Harrison Chase, the C ... Show More

27m 32s

Oct 2024

Bring Vector Search And Storage To The Data Lake With Lance

Summary The rapid growth of generative AI applications has prompted a surge of investment in vector databases. While there are numerous engines available now, Lance is designed to integrate with data lake and lakehouse architectures. In this episode Weston Pace explains the inner ... Show More

58m 1s

Nov 2024

scikit-learn & data science you own

We are at GenAI saturation, so let’s talk about scikit-learn, a long time favorite for data scientists building classifiers, time series analyzers, dimensionality reducers, and more! Scikit-learn is deployed across industry and driving a significant portion of the “AI” that is ac ... Show More

52m 2s

Jan 2024

Designing Data Platforms For Fintech Companies

<h2>Summary</h2> <p>Working with financial data requires a high degree of rigor due to the numerous regulations and the risks involved in security breaches. In this episode Andrey Korchack, CTO of fintech startup Monite, discusses the complexities of designing and implementing ... Show More

47m 57s

May 2025

AI is Making Enterprise Search Relevant, with Arvind Jain of Glean

Arvind Jain joins Sarah and Elad on this episode of No Priors. Arvind is the founder and CEO of Glean, an AI-powered enterprise search platform. He previously co-founded Rubrik and spent over a decade as an engineering leader at Google. In this episode, Arvind shares how LLMs are ... Show More

31m 34s

Sep 2021

An Exploration Of The Data Engineering Requirements For Bioinformatics

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Biology has been gaining a lot of attention in recent years, even before the pandemic. As an outgrowth of that popularity, a new field has grown up that pairs statistics and compuational analysis with scientific research ... Show More

55m 10s

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