Best Software Defined Talk Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 547: Whitney goes to KubeCon 1:09:21

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This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547 Rundown Slutty Vegan Cloud Native Rejekts Maintainer Summit Conference Parties Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know Linkerd Forever Migrating fr…

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RAID in the NVMe Era 23:48

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RAID, redundant array of independent disks, uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive. RAID 1 replicates data with a 50% overhead. RAID 5 and 6 are more common in larger arrays with less overhead as more drives are added to the mix but with a tradeoff in performance. Mark Anthony, P…

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What is a tech bubble anyway? (News) 8:46

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Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI maybe-bubble to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week’s Cloudflare outage, “hl” is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast Guy’s Continuum 93 is a fantasy computer emulator, and a list of things that aren’t doing the thing. View the…

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NOT a swarm! (Friends) 1:41:10

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Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they ma…

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EU data protection enforcement and guidance: A discussion with EDPB Chair Anu Talus 34:48

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Anu Talus was elected Chair of the European Data Protection Board in May of 2023. The EDPB, which was established in 2018, ensures that the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive are consistently applied in the EU. It also provides general GDPR guidance, adopts findings to ensure the GDPR is implemented …

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Creating communal computers (Interview) 57:48

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Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer’s experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line of internet sculptures and real-world computing shrines that will hopefully…

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The Importance of Chipscale Packaging in Electronics 18:28

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AI workloads and other advanced computing applications continue to expand, pressuring the development community with the dual challenges of performance and manufacturability. Traditional SoCs are approaching their limits in terms of size, yield, and cost, and one solution lies in chiplet-based architectures. In this episode, we talk to Larry Zu, CE…

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Why is Zig so cool? (News) 9:07

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Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art to medieval alchemy, LibrePods unlocks AirPods features for Android, and our first ever Changelog News Classifie…

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Episode 113: Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer 1:11:15

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Whitney and Coté talk with Andrew Clay Shafer, co-founder of Puppet and principal at an advisory firm, about the nuances of DevOps transformation, open source dynamics, and running his burger restaurant, All American Burger. They talk about the challenges of integrating social and technical systems, managing metrics and KPIs, and the evolving ecosy…

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Retreat to attack (Friends) 1:44:16

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Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React’s seemingly perpetual dominance, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because t…

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Episode 546: The cURLing Test 1:00:44

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This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546 Runner-up Titles Matt has a lot of room tone. I shut the kitchen door . You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning. Did you see my …

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DO repeat yourself! (Interview) 1:19:58

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Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is “good taste” in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get…

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Focusing on AI at the Edge 18:46

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Synaptics is well known for their touch technology, but they do a lot more including their new Astra SL2610 family of system-on-chip (SoC) that incorporates Google’s open source, Coral artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. Synaptics’ Vikram Gupta talks about the Synaptics' continuing push for edge AI and how that is tied into their other offeri…

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This new AI role is exploding (News) 8:43

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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests. View the newsletter Join t…

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#define: sheer resistance (Friends) 1:42:41

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres…

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Guest pod: Alex LaCasse talks AI governance with Brenda Leong and Andrew Burt 27:12

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As artificial intelligence continues to coalesce in the modern economy, AI governance only grows in significance. Brenda Leong, director of ZwillGen's AI division, and Andrew Burt, CEO of Luminos, have long been on the front lines of AI's emergence and busy helping organizations navigate this space. In a first for The Privacy Advisor Podcast, we're…

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Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens 1:12:45

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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545 Runner-up Titles Stack the deck Pets and Chickens Blame it on Android They’re fungible Are they going to have to introduce a new principle? Managers of rocks The world we live in Mar…

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The world of open source metadata (Interview) 1:43:59

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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. Wh…

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The State of Silicon Carbide in Power Electronics 14:39

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Wide-bandgap semiconductors like silicon carbide (SiC) have changed the landscape of electronics and have fomented a revolution in power conversion. In this podcast, we talk to Adam Barkley, VP, Power Technology Development at Wolfspeed, about the state of the industry in silicon carbide and where the industry is going.…

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The overlooked power of URLs (News) 7:30

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog+…

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We see dead projects (Friends) 1:18:33

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It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Joi…

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Episode 544: The Enterprise Turing Test 1:02:21

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This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544 Runner-up Titles Cote’ shock jock mode Art with squids Command-Line Life Style AI isn’t for experts. The triumph of the command…

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Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) 2:03:40

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Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some …

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Episode 112: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies 1:17:24

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We talk with Russell Davies this episode. He has done many things, above all else made lots of interesting content and messed around with producing content. Advertising, blogging and the World Wide Web of the 2000's, interesting conferences (call exactly that: interesting), books, and of late, he's been mastering the short video format. I am a big …

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The Evolving Cloud Infrastructure 18:01

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We can simulate everything very exactly, but when it comes to that analog interface between the system and reality, you must be very careful because sometimes things don't behave in the analog realm the way they're predicted to. In this episode, we talk to Dermot O'Shea, CEO of Taoglas, about the state of the cloud and IoT and the challenges in dev…

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Code like a surgeon (News) 8:24

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The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ mem…

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Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) 1:47:36

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It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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Episode 543: Arts and Crafts 1:06:34

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This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543 Runner-up Titles Firewire is dead USB, what are you going to do? It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it. I am…

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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) 56:39

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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and …

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Episode 28 - Page One Is Dead: Tracking SEO Success in the AI, Mobile, and Local Era 14:50

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Episode 28 - Page One Is Dead: Tracking SEO Success in the AI, Mobile, and Local Era For decades, SEOs have lived and died by one metric — page one rankings. But in 2025, that definition is obsolete. With mobile-first indexing, AI overviews, and local grid systems, the idea of being “ranked number one” no longer guarantees visibility. Sign up for S…

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Episode 29 - The Silent Killer of SEO: 20 Crawlability Fixes Every Website Needs in 2025 20:57

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Episode 29 - The Silent Killer of SEO: 20 Crawlability Fixes Every Website Needs in 2025 You can have the best content in the world — but if Google can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. In this episode, we unpack one of SEO’s most overlooked fundamentals: crawlability — the invisible network of rules, settings, and structures that determines whether you…

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Episode 22 - Surfer SEO vs. Search Atlas: Which Platform Defines the Future of SEO? 17:32

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Episode 22 - Surfer SEO vs. Search Atlas: Which Platform Defines the Future of SEO? SEO tools are no longer just about keywords — they’re shaping how content is created, optimized, and even understood by AI-driven algorithms. In this episode, we go deep into Surfer SEO’s data-first model and its core tension between algorithmic precision and creati…

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Episode 27 - BrightEdge Unpacked: Is the Fortune 500’s Heavyweight SEO Platform Still Worth It in 2025? 17:13

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Episode 27 - BrightEdge Unpacked: Is the Fortune 500’s Heavyweight SEO Platform Still Worth It in 2025? Enterprise SEO isn’t for the faint of heart — it’s a world of massive data pipelines, multi-site management, and million-dollar contracts. In this episode, we dive deep into BrightEdge, one of the most established enterprise SEO platforms on the …

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Episode 26 - Ahrefs vs. Moz vs. Search Atlas: Who Wins the 2025 SEO Battle? 13:35

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Episode 26 - Ahrefs vs. Moz vs. Search Atlas: Who Wins the 2025 SEO Battle? Choosing the right SEO platform has never been more high-stakes. Between Ahrefs, Moz Pro, and the new AI-driven entrant Search Atlas, marketers are being asked to decide between deep data, trusted authority metrics, and automated execution. Sign up for Search Atlas here htt…

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Episode 24 - Keyword Research API Wars: Choosing the Right Data Pipeline to Scale SEO 16:55

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Episode 24 - Keyword Research API Wars: Choosing the Right Data Pipeline to Scale SEO Every SEO professional hits the same wall: clunky tools, noisy data, and inconsistent outputs that make scaling your workflow a nightmare. This episode dives deep into the solution — Keyword Research APIs — the data pipelines that quietly power the world’s most ef…

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Episode 25 - Raven Tools vs. Moz: Are Legacy SEO Platforms Falling Behind AI Automation? 17:27

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Episode 25 - Raven Tools vs. Moz: Are Legacy SEO Platforms Falling Behind AI Automation? For years, Raven Tools and Moz have defined the SEO landscape — powering agencies, marketers, and analysts with reliable reporting, backlink tracking, and keyword intelligence. But in 2025, the competition isn’t just about features anymore — it’s about automati…

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Episode 23 - Automating SEO Authority: 9 AI Internal Linking Tools You Should Know in 2025 17:48

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Episode 23 - Automating SEO Authority: 9 AI Internal Linking Tools You Should Know in 2025 If you’ve ever managed a large website, you know how exhausting internal linking can be. It’s one of the most powerful levers for SEO performance — and one of the hardest to scale manually. In this episode, we explore nine automated internal linking tools tha…

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Episode 20 - The AI Advantage: How to Spot the Next Dogecoin in the $100 Billion Meme Coin Boom 15:43

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Episode 20 - The AI Advantage: How to Spot the Next Dogecoin in the $100 Billion Meme Coin Boom Artificial intelligence is changing the way investors and analysts interpret crypto markets — especially in the unpredictable world of meme coins. In this episode, we explore how AI-driven sentiment models, on-chain data, and behavioral analytics are rev…

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Episode 21 - SEO Software Showdown: Ahrefs vs. SEO PowerSuite vs. Search Atlas in 2025 14:12

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Episode 21 - SEO Software Showdown: Ahrefs vs. SEO PowerSuite vs. Search Atlas in 2025 SEO has changed more in the last two years than in the previous decade. With generative AI, LLMs, and real-time ranking shifts, the tools marketers use have to evolve faster than the algorithms themselves. In this episode, we compare three major platforms shaping…

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Talking about Test with Liquid Instruments 21:45

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The world of test and measurement is getting more complex and challenging in many ways. There are multiple factors impacting the T&M industry, from materials to new topologies to smaller form factors with even higher levels of integration and power density. In this episode, we talk to the CEO of Liquid Instruments, Daniel Shaddock, about the curren…

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The science behind developer flow states (News) 6:47

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. View the ne…

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There will be bleeps (Friends) 1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud. 1:02:34

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Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare. Show Links OpenMetal.io Contact Yuriy Shyyan LinkedIn: Yu…

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Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) 1:25:20

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We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-driven development. Their aim: the flow of AI coding, leveled up with mature engineering practices. Join the discussion Changelog+…