Best Service Mesh Podcasts (2026)

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Ep. #48, Unpacking Software Supply Chain Security with Justin Cappos 1:04:59

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On episode 48 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Justin Cappos, professor at NYU and a pioneer in software supply chain security. They explore the origins of modern package manager security, the real-world limits of SBOMs, and why systems should be designed assuming compromise. The conversation spans CNCF gover…

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How Varlock Fixes .env Vulnerabilities and Secures Your Secrets 40:46

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Environment variables and secrets are usually a mess: out of sync .env files, scattered API keys, painful onboarding, and brittle CI configs. In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel talks with Varlock co-creators Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim about how Varlock turns .env files into a real schema with types, validation, and documentation,…

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Ep 132: The IMPACT Framework: How to Create $5K Offers in 2 Minutes with AI 16:49

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Most Australian business owners are brilliant at what they do — but their offers are putting people to sleep. "We're a reputable company providing quality service" isn't an offer, it's a sleeping pill. In this episode, Nick breaks down IMPACT — a 6-step framework reverse-engineered from guys like Alex Hormozi, Frank Kern, and Dean Graziosi. You'll …

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Ep 131: The S3 Filter: Why Most Businesses Fail the Simplicity Test 13:38

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You've got staff, systems, and revenue coming in — but you can't take a holiday, can't turn your phone off, and can't let anyone else touch the important stuff. Sound familiar? That's not a business, that's a trap. In this episode, Nick breaks down the S3 Filter — three tests every business needs to pass: Simple, Structured, and Scalable. Not one o…

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The One Mindset That Will 10x Your Dev Career (and Keep You Ahead of AI) 32:26

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Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson go deep on intentionality, the developer “superpower” that can speed up your growth, sharpen your judgment, and keep you from getting automated away in the AI era. Rob unpacks a simple loop (state intent → act → measure → review) with real stories, including the ticket he challenged on day one that saved a team six figur…

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The Cloud Built AI. Can It Survive What AI Needs Next? 33:39

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On this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson welcome Miles Ward, CTO of SADA, for an in-depth conversation about the intersection of cloud computing and AI. Miles shares his career journey from early days at AWS and Google Cloud to leading SADA through its acquisition by Insight, offering a rare perspective on the ev…

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Ep 130: The Objection Assassin: Turn Pushback into Profit 20:38

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Welcome to today's episode, The Objection Assassin, where Nick Psaila from UpCoach shares how his client Craig stopped folding on price and started closing with confidence—going from losing nearly $300,000 a year to running at 28% profit margins. In this episode, Nick breaks down a practical framework for reframing objections as concerns—and addres…

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Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes 46:20

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Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign…

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Ep 129: The Premium Positioning Play: How to Charge More, Work Less, and Become the Go-To Expert 19:15

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Welcome to today's episode, The Premium Positioning Play, where Nick Psaila from UpCoach reveals how one client transformed a business from $530,000 to over $6 million — not by cutting prices, but by becoming the premium choice in his market. Visit www.upcoach.com.au to learn how to position your business as the authority customers aspire to hire. …

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Ep 128: The 72 - Hour Cash Hunt: How One Business Turned $280K Debt into $1M Success 16:33

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Welcome to today's episode, The 72-Hour Cash Hunt, where Nick Psaila from UpCoach shares how one client turned his business around from $280,000 in debt to over $1 million in revenue — using a simple 72-hour system. Visit www.upcoach.com.au to learn how you can strengthen your business cash flow and systemise your success. In this episode, Nick rev…

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How NPM Auto-Updates & Post-Install Scripts Could Hijack Your Org 36:08

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In this Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson break down the recent string of NPM supply chain attacks that have shaken the JavaScript ecosystem. They cover the NX compromise, the phishing campaign that hit libraries like Chalk, and the Shy Halood exploit, showing how small changes in dependencies can have massive effects. Along the way, …

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Cracking Tech Interviews When AI Changes the Rules 48:19

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Wes Eklund from AWS ProServe about interviews, practical AI, and the future of developer workflows. Wes shares what trips candidates up in coding and behavioral rounds, how to ask better questions, and why prepping multiple honest STAR narratives matters. Danny introdu…

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Every AI Cloud-Native Expert Starts with Kubernetes | API Gateways vs Service Mesh Explained 36:07

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Danny Thompson sits down with Marino Wijay, Staff Solutions Architect at Kong and CNCF Ambassador, for a wide-ranging conversation on modern cloud-native development. They start with Kubernetes as the entry point into the ecosystem and explore what it really means to be a CNCF ambassador. Marino explains the difference between an API gateway and a …

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I’m Sorry, But Your CSS Is Terrible 50:10

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Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson sit down with Andy Bell to treat CSS as a craft, not a chore. Andy explains why he mentors the browser instead of micromanaging it, how progressive enhancement keeps products resilient, and which modern features deserve attention right now, including has, anchor positioning, and clamp. The conversation gets practical on …

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Software Developers Spill the Beans on Conversational AI 42:04

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson are joined by Rishab Kumar, Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, to explore the evolving landscape of voice and AI interactions. They discuss the rise of conversational AI, how voice interfaces are becoming the natural medium for human-computer interaction, and the tools and be…

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The Biggest Mistakes Devs Make in Accessibility & SEO 41:48

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In this episode, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson enjoy a conversation with Kilian Valkhof, founder of Polypane, a browser built for developers who care deeply about their craft. The discussion explores the shifting landscape of online developer communities as conversations migrate from Twitter to Blue Sky, Mastodon, Discord, and local meetups. Kilian s…

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Sentry Has New AI Tools for Monitoring and Developer Workflows 42:18

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This episode of the Modern Web Podcast features Cody De Arkland, Head of Developer Experience at Sentry, in conversation with hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson. They explore how Sentry has embraced a culture of experimentation with AI, from grassroots innovation in Slack channels to leadership setting the tone for rapid adoption. Cody shares insigh…

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Swarm 2030. Let's Go! 25:25

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Bret discusses exciting news about Swarm being maintained until 2030. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I fi…

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How Elasticsearch Improves Search Relevance, Log Parsing, Production Systems, + More! 35:34

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Philipp Krenn, Head of Developer Advocacy at Elastic, about how Elasticsearch has evolved from a search engine into a foundation for observability, security, and AI-powered systems. Philipp explains how Elastic approaches information retrieval beyond just vector search…

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Is Docker Building the Best AI Stack? 1:07:05

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin to discuss Docker's comprehensive AI toolkit, covering everything from local model deployment to cloud-based container orchestration across multiple interconnected tools and services. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI…

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What is AI Agentic Experience and Why Provide a Great AX for Users? 48:00

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Sean Roberts, Head of AX Architecture and Distinguished Engineer at Netlify, about the emerging discipline of Agentic Experience (AX). They explore how AX is reshaping how we design services for AI agents, what makes an agent experience successful, and why tradit…

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Could AI End Human QA? 54:19

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Bret is joined by Andrew Tunall, the President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, to discuss his prediction that we’ll all start shipping non-QA'd code (buggier code in production) and QA will need to be replaced with better observability. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions fo…

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Why Prompt Engineering Skills Matter More than Your AI Model with Melkey Dev 36:18

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In this episode of Modern Web, Danny Thompson chats with MelkeyDev, a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Twitch, about AI’s real-world applications, developer productivity, and the future of careers in Go. They cover everything from the rise of tiny AI-driven teams competing with large enterprises to how system prompts may matter more than…

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AI Agents Running Containers 56:52

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The Daytona founders - Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic - discuss their pivot to an AI agent cloud. We dig into the new infrastructure requirements of developing agents that need their own sandboxes to operate in. A year ago, we had them on to talk about Daytona giving us remote development environments for humans, and they have now pivoted the compan…

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What is Agent Experience (AX)? + Scalable AI Agent Orchestration 39:06

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson sit down with Andre Landgraf, Senior Developer Advocate at Neon (now part of Databricks), to explore the evolving role of AI agents in developer workflows. They discuss how more Neon databases are being spun up by agents than humans, what that means for developer and agent…

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The State of Authentication: The Future is BUNDLED! 40:02

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On this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Brian Morrison, Senior Developer Educator at Clerk. They cover the state of authentication today, what makes Clerk stand out for small teams and indie builders, and how thoughtful developer experience design can make or break adoption.Brian shares why bundling tools li…

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Ep. #47, SecureBuild with Grant Miller of Replicated 1:17:46

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In episode 47 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with Grant Miller, Founder and CEO of Replicated. This talk chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of Replicated and the many entrepreneurial lessons learned along the way. Grant and Marc also unveil SecureBuild, a new offering for open source projects. Lastly they share their firsth…

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How MCP is Changing AI App Building 49:51

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On this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel, Danny Thompson, and Adam Rackis are joined by Tejas Kumar, host of The Contagious Code podcast, author of Fluent React, and Developer Relations Engineer for Generative AI at DataStax. They unpack the current wave of AI announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build, and zoom in on the si…

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Heroku + MCP = The Fastest Way to Run AI Agents in the Cloud 43:01

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Julián Duque from Heroku joins me to explain and demo their new AI platform. Check out the video podcast version here https://youtu.be/BGqlLZHdRDs 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows…

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Building AI Agents That Build AI Agents: Inside Chai.new 47:28

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel, Danny Thompson, and Adam Rackis sit down with Ahmad Awais, CEO and founder of LangBase, to talk about agents, context, and the future of AI-assisted software development. Ahmad shares the origin story of Chai.new, an agent that builds agents, and why he believes context, not code, is the true val…

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Is AI ready for DevOps? 28:48

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Launching our new Podcast: https://agenticdevops.fm Bret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents will change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automati…

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Building a TikTok-Style App with React Native & Expo: Interview w Skylight Social CTO, Reed Harmeyer 35:02

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Danny Thompson sits down with Reed Harmeyer, CTO of Skylight Social, and Brandon Mathis, React Native engineer at This Dot Labs. They unpack the technical and strategic decisions behind Skylight’s meteoric growth: why they built on the AT Protocol, how they tackled video discovery and scaling challenges, a…

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What you missed at KubeCon 40:59

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At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for…

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What’s New About Heroku in 2025? AI Platform as a Service + What are MCPs? 38:31

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson sit down with Julián Duque, Principal Developer Advocate at Heroku, to talk about Heroku’s evolution into an AI Platform-as-a-Service. Julián breaks down Heroku’s new Managed Inference and Agents (MIA) platform, how they’re supporting Claude, Cohere, and Stable Diffusion, and wh…

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Building Roo Code: Agentic Coding, Boomerang Tasks, and Community 44:11

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Hannes Rudolph, Community Manager at RooCode, to explore how this fast-moving, community-driven code editor is rethinking what AI-assisted development looks like. Hannes breaks down Roo’s agentic coding model, explains how their “boomerang tasks” tackle LLM context lim…

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Battle of The AI Agents: RooCode, Claude, & Cursor 37:33

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel is joined by Danny Thompson, Adam Rackis, and special guest Coston Perkins for a lively discussion on the evolving role of AI in software development. The group swaps thoughts on everything from the rise of AI agents like RooCode and Claude, to what makes tools like Vercel’s v0 surprisingly powerf…

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Why Unkey Ditched TypeScript and Serverless for GO! 37:17

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, host Danny Thompson and co-host Adam Rackis chat with James Perkins, CEO of Unkey, an open-source API management platform built for scale, security, and developer simplicity. James shares the challenges of building globally distributed infrastructure, and why his team ditched serverless and TypeScript in f…

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Docker Model Runner 14:44

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Docker launched "Docker Model Runner" to run LLMs through llama.cpp with a single "docker model" command. In this episode Bret details examples and some useful use cases for using this way to run LLMs. He breaks down the internals. How it works, when you should use it or not use it; and, how to get started using Open WebUI for a private ChatGPT-lik…

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What Makes TanStack Form Different from Other Form State Managers? 42:57

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson talk with Corbin Crutchley — founder of Playful Programming, Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, and maintainer of multiple TanStack libraries including TanStack Form, Store, and Config.They dive into Corbin’s work maintaining open source at scale, what makes TanStack Form different (an…

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Battle of the Agentic AI Platforms: v0 vs Bolt vs Replit 40:37

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, host Danny Thompson sits down with Ben Peeri, Lead Solutions Architect and Entrepreneur, for a candid and energetic conversation on how AI tools are reshaping the way developers build software. They explore the strengths and tradeoffs of platforms like v0, Bolt, and Replit, diving into how these tools fit …

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Junior Devs Shouldn’t Use AI + Is the AI Discussion Repetitive? 33:40

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson get real about the current state of AI in software development. They talk about what’s working, what’s frustrating, and why so much of the conversation around AI feels repetitive or disconnected from reality. They explore how AI is actually being used day to day—and where it sti…

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Ep 127: Charlie Clark: Empire Virtual Support - Streamlining and Transforming Business Operations 58:09

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Welcome to today's episode, where we dive into the world of virtual support with Charlie Clark from Empire Virtual Support. Visit www.empirevirtualsupport.com.au to learn how you can streamline your business operations. Charlie shares insights into how their company helps businesses streamline operations by offering expert virtual assistant service…

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Why React Remix is Great for Server Side Engineering 39:36

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Join hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson for another episode of the Modern Web Podcast, where they sit down with Brad Garropy, senior front-end engineer at Stripe, YouTuber, and all-around tech enthusiast. Brad shares insights from his journey through big tech—from Dell to Adobe, Atlassian, and now Stripe—while discussing the challenges of scaling fr…

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What's Coming in 2025? 18:20

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This episode is about what I'm seeing and what I'm doing right now, and then for the rest of the year. There are three parts. First, I talk about what's about to happen for me for the next few weeks re going to London for KubeCon. Then what I'm planning to change in this podcast, as well as my other content on YouTube for the rest of the year. And …

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Docker Build the best way with Docker Bake 16:43

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The Docker Bake Build tool just went general availability, and I'm excited about what this means for creating reproducible builds and automation that can run anywhere. In this video I'm gonna break down some of the features, the benefits and walk through some examples. In this episode I explain why docker buildx bake exists, what it can do, and I w…

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Why Choose Appwrite Over Firebase or Supabase? 39:00

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel, Adam Rackis, and Danny Thompson, examine the technical side of modern web development with guest Dennis Ivy, a developer advocate at Appwrite. The discussion explores HTMX, its approach to extending HTML for dynamic UIs, and how it challenges the dominance of JavaScript-heavy SPAs. They exa…

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The Evolution of Prisma in 2025 with Søren Bramer Schmidt, CEO and Founder of Prisma 47:00

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In this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, hosts Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson chat with Søren Bramer Schmidt, CEO and Founder of Prisma, about the evolution of Prisma to a widely adopted ORM used by 50% of Fortune 2000 companies. Søren shares insights on balancing open-source growth with enterprise adoption, optimizing ORM performance, and addressin…

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How Code Reviews Shape Strong Engineering Leaders: Pairing vs. Mobbing 40:54

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On this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Adam Rackis talk with Noah Harris, Senior Engineering Manager at Launch, to discuss the impact of mob programming and how it can transform engineering teams. Noah shares how pairing and mobbing helped him rapidly level up in his early career, how it fosters stronger communication, and why it’s…

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Ep. #46, Kubefirst with John Dietz of Konstruct 53:42

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In episode 46 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie chat with John Dietz, CEO of Konstruct, about Kubefirst, an open source platform that streamlines Kubernetes adoption. John shares the journey of building Kubefirst, overcoming Kubernetes complexity, and the challenges of commercializing open source software. The post appeared first on Heavybit…

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Is DevRel Really Worth It for Most Organizations? 41:32

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On this episode of the Modern Web Podcast, Rob Ocel and Danny Thompson sit down with Marc Backes, a freelance full-stack engineer with a wild journey through Vue.js, Nuxt, and DevRel. Marc shares what makes the Vue community stand out, why DevRel often misses the mark, and how Wikipedia uses Vue 3 to scale content across thousands of languages.Then…