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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
Massdriver
Feature Flags
Terraform
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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We're hitting pause for the summer on new episodes of the Platform Engineering Podcast, but don’t worry, we’ve got some great episodes in the feed to keep you entertained in the meantime.

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Network calls fail in ways function calls never do - and once a monolith becomes microservices, reliability problems show up fast: retries amplify load, latency spikes cascade, and “what talks to what?” becomes hard to answer.

William Morgan, co-cre... more

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When code gets cheaper to produce, feedback becomes the limiting factor - CI, reviews, and the handoffs between tools can quietly slow everything down.

Rob Zuber breaks down what platform engineers are seeing as teams adopt AI-assisted development: ... more

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A lot of infrastructure and automation fails for ordinary reasons: rate limits, flaky networks, partial permissions, long-running jobs, and retries that vanish when the process restarts. Durable execution is a way to design systems that keep going an... more

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William Morgan
CEO of Buoyant and co-creator of Linkerd
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Episode: What Do Service Meshes Actually Solve? (William Morgan, Buoyant/Linkerd)
Rob Zuber
CTO at CircleCI
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Episode: Continuous Integration at Agentic Velocity with CircleCI’s Rob Zuber
Cornelia Davis
Principal technologist at Temporal
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Episode: Durable Execution for Real‑World Failures with Temporal’s Cornelia Davis
Nikhil Mungel
Head of AI R&D at Cribl
Cribl
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
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Episode: Observability in the AI Era with New Relic's Nic Benders

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Cory O'Daniel
Host of Platform Engineering Podcast

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 17 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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Guests are well-chosen, bringing real-world experience with tooling and scale.
Listeners praise deep-dive technical discussions and practical insights into platform engineering and DevOps.
Quality of content remains high with actionable guidance for implementing platform solutions.

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What Do Service Meshes Actually Solve? (William Morgan, Buoyant/Linkerd)
Q: How should developers interact with or perceive the service mesh?
The host argues developers should not directly see or configure the mesh; instead, they should experience its benefits through uniform visibility and policy enforcement provided by the platform, with platform owners controlling the mesh configuration.
What Do Service Meshes Actually Solve? (William Morgan, Buoyant/Linkerd)
Q: What is the main problem the service mesh solves as you break apart a monolith?
The service mesh primarily improves reliability and observability in distributed systems, handling complex network failures, retries, and traffic management so application logic can remain clean while the network layer ensures robust communication.
What Do Service Meshes Actually Solve? (William Morgan, Buoyant/Linkerd)
Q: What was that journey like from Twitter to Linkerd and service meshes?
William describes moving from monolithic Rails to a microservices world, recognizing that infrastructure bottlenecks required new tooling, which led to building a cloud-native, containerized platform and eventually the Linkerd service mesh to manage inter-service communication.
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.

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

This program centers on real-world platform engineering—building and operating internal platforms, developer experience, and the tradeoffs that shape scalable infrastructure. Episodes feature candid conversations with leaders and practitioners about how to structure teams, manage multi-cloud tooling, and reduce toil while delivering high-velocity software delivery. Common threads include IaC evolution, CI/CD and automation, observability, governance, and how AI and new tooling reshape the platform engineering landscape. A notable pattern is practical, hands-on perspectives from practitioners at diverse companies, plus occasional sponsor messages tied to platform tooling and infrastructure platforms. This mix offers actionable insights for a... more

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7. Pavlo Baron
8. Justin Masse

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