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Platform Engineering Podcast

Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver
Platform Engineering
Devops
Kubernetes
Infrastructure As Code
Cloud Operations
Cloud Computing
Cloud Migration
AWS
Cloud Engineering
Software Development
Feature Flags
Terraform
Massdriver
Microservices
Security Compliance
Developer Productivity
Configuration Management
Dagster
Launchdarkly
Observability

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

What happens when a non-deterministic AI system is asked to touch production telemetry or generate changes for an SRE pipeline? The cost of being “close enough” can be lost data, downtime, or a security incident.

Cribl’s Nikhil Mungel joins Cory to ... more

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When a flaky test can stall a merge queue, “just rerun CI” stops scaling fast.

Cory talks with Trunk co-founder and CEO Eli Schleifer about the outer loop problems that show up as teams ship more code - especially with AI-assisted development increa... more

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What happens when your “coworker” can generate code and changes faster than your team can review them, and production still has to stay up?

William Collins breaks down what AI-Native Ops looks like when you take reliability seriously: where reasonin... more

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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

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Recent Guests

Nikhil Mungel
Head of AI R&D at Cribl
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Episode: You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
Eli Schleifer
Co-founder and CEO of Trunk
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Episode: Green CI and Merge Queue Mastery with Trunk’s Eli Schleifer
William Collins
Director of Technical Evangelism at Itential; AWS Community Builder; co-host of The Cloud Gambit Podcast
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Episode: AI-Native Ops: Making AI Safe for Production with William Collins
Pavlo Baron
Co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs
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Episode: Infrastructure as Code's Hidden Problem with Pavlo Baron
Justin Masse
Senior Platform DevOps Engineer at Extend
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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.
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Episode: Policy as Code: Kyverno and Securing Kubernetes at Scale with Jim Bugwadia

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Cory O'Daniel
Host of Platform Engineering Podcast

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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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#220
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#227
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#19
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#45
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#48
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You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
Q: Can you share how Cribl approaches security and data privacy when using AI on observability data?
We benchmark in-house models, scrub sensitive data, and build guardrails to prevent leakage, emphasizing standards around data handling and access controls in AI workflows.
You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
Q: What does platform engineering look like when AI-driven tooling outputs thousands of PRs per hour?
It requires robust deployment pipelines, verification and validation tooling, and a focus on guardrails and observability to ensure new code integrates safely without destabilizing production.
You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
Q: How do you address the non-determinism of LLMs in production-critical platforms?
You minimize AI usage for high-stakes tasks, surround outputs with guardrails, break problems into small chunks, and rely on deterministic orchestration to validate results before they enter production.
You Need AI Sysadmins Can Trust, With Cribl's Nikhil Mungel
Q: You've been building distributed systems for a decade. What steered you toward AI and R&D?
The realization came from early experiences with SQL-like query languages and the gap AI could fill with auto-completions and later from breakthroughs with chat-based models, which shifted how we think about enabling engineers and automating repetitive tasks.
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.

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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. Nikhil Mungel
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5. Justin Masse
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7. Brian Childress
8. Mike Zorn

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