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Platform Engineering Podcast

Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver
Platform Engineering
Devops
Infrastructure As Code
Kubernetes
Cloud Operations
AWS
Cloud Computing
Developer Productivity
Security Compliance
Massdriver
Mass Driver
Hybrid Cloud
Cfengine
Disaster Recovery
Machine Learning
Automation
Cloud Application Development
Business Continuity
Hashicorp
Generative AI

The Platform Engineering Podcast is a show about the real work of building and running internal platforms — hosted by Cory O’Daniel, longtime infrastructure and software engineer, and CEO/cofounder of Massdriver. Each episode features candid conversations with the engineers, leads, and builders shaping platform engineering today. Topics range from org structure and team ownership to infrastructure... more

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Latest Episodes

Terraform drift, state wrangling, and a growing “tools for tools” stack are still daily work for many platform teams - despite a decade of DevOps talk and cloud maturity. Why does ops automation so often feel like it needs babysitting?

Pavlo Baron b... more

Billions of requests a month on AWS Lambda can cost less than a single engineer’s laptop budget, but only if the architecture and developer workflow are designed for it.

Justin Masse, Senior Platform DevOps Engineer at Extend, shares how Extend comm... more

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What happens when nobody wrote the code running in your production environment? As AI-generated software becomes standard practice, platform engineers face a new challenge: operating systems without experts to consult.

Nic Benders, Chief Technical S... more

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Why do so many “modern” platforms feel slow, fragile, and painful to work on?

Platform engineer and fractional CTO Brian Childress joins Cory to discuss how over-engineering, resume‑driven development, and scattered tooling quietly block teams from ... more

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Recent Guests

Justin Masse
Senior Platform DevOps Engineer at Extend
Extend
Episode: Why Extend Went All-In on Serverless Platform Engineering
Nic Benders
Chief Technical Strategist at New Relic
New Relic
Episode: Observability in the AI Era with New Relic's Nic Benders
Brian Childress
Technology leader, fractional CTO who helps teams simplify platforms and improve developer experience.
Episode: Simplicity at Scale: Cleaning House for Platform Teams with Brian Childress
Mike Zorn
Senior Staff Engineer at Rippling, former engineer at LaunchDarkly
Rippling
Episode: Using Feature Flags to Tame Complexity with Mike Zorn
Jim Bugwadia
Co-founder and CEO of Nirmata, involved in the Kubernetes community and lead developer of Kyverno.
Nirmata
Episode: Policy as Code: Kyverno and Securing Kubernetes at Scale with Jim Bugwadia
Michael Ferranti
Chief Marketing Officer at Unleash, focused on helping teams use feature flags
Unleash
Episode: How to Ship Faster with Feature Flags: Insights from Unleash
Matt DeBergalis
CEO of Apollo GraphQL
Apollo GraphQL
Episode: GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis
Mike Mroczka
Interview coach and ex-Googler
Author of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
Episode: Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview with Mike Mroczka
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CEO of Dagster Labs, co-founder of React and former web engineer at Instagram and Facebook.
Dagster Labs
Episode: From React to Dagster: Pete Hunt on Data, Infra, and AI-Ready Platforms

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Cory O'Daniel
Host of Platform Engineering Podcast

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 16 ratings
  • Fantastic podcast on platform engineering!

    I was searching for a podcast which talks about platform engineering as I am working in same field and this has been exceptional find. The host and guests talks about the relevant technologies in depth and provide great insights. Keep up the good work guys!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    sandeep_kumar56
    Australia2 years ago
  • Fantastic podcast!

    Best show on cloud infrastructure and platform engineering yet!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Seth-Philly
    United States2 years ago

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The host steers conversations toward actionable insights and tooling choices.
Experts discuss practical platform engineering topics with real-world context.
Guests bring deep hands-on knowledge and varied perspectives.

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#144
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#6
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#46
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#76
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#93
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Using Feature Flags to Tame Complexity with Mike Zorn
Q: What are some of the interesting ways that you've seen platform teams adopt feature flags?
Platform teams have utilized feature flags for various advanced purposes, such as adjusting logging levels in real-time for specific customers and controlling rate limits dynamically based on customer needs.
Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough
Q: What are you observing during this transition period going from, we got to automate a bunch of servers to, people want the servers to be smaller?
Cory reflects on the necessary adaptations in deployment strategies as the industry shifts towards both containerization and serverless solutions, suggesting that managing infrastructure needs to become simpler in response to increased complexity.
Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough
Q: What makes you qualified to say this can't be it?
Cory shares his background in operations and his extensive experience with cloud migrations, highlighting the challenges he has seen in scaling IaC adoption across various organizations.
GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis
Q: What are some of the things that you're excited to see or maybe some of the customers are doing with MCP and GraphQL today?
The big exciting thing is we're an application development company. At the end of the day, we're here to help people write great software.
GraphQL, MCP, and the Future of APIs with Apollo CEO Matt DeBergalis
Q: Can you kind of expand on what you mean by declarative architecture in the world of querying and interacting with APIs?
There's this movement toward a component-based or declarative approach to things that were previously done with bespoke code.

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What is Platform Engineering Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show centers on real-world platform engineering, exploring how internal platforms are built and operated inside organizations. Episodes frequently cover developer experience, templating and infrastructure as code, multi-cloud or multi-region strategies, observability and cost governance, and the tension between enabling autonomous product teams and maintaining operational control. Guests range from platform leaders and engineers to makers of tooling (feature flags, Kubernetes governance, data orchestration) who share pragmatic lessons from scale, outages, and tooling choices. The format tends to be candid, practice-focused, and technology-forward, making it useful for listeners evaluating platform design, vendor tooling, or sponsorship ... more

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1. Justin Masse
2. Nic Benders
3. Brian Childress
4. Mike Zorn
5. Jim Bugwadia
6. Michael Ferranti
7. Matt DeBergalis
8. Mike Mroczka

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