Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 357
Exploring why fault injection tools belong in every staging environment as isolated cloud outages replace large regional failures.
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357: Cache Me If You Can – Now With Durability
Are tech executives suffering from “AI psychosis”? Is AI more expensive then the people it was meant to replace? This week, Justin and Matt dive into the reality behind the hype. From Uber burning its entire 2026 AI coding budget (in just four months if you believe the word on the street) to Microsoft shifting employees away from Claude Code due to costs, the economic tension of AI adoption is officially here. Turns out, you still need a human in the loop!
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 356
The Vatican weighs in on AI’s impact on human work as hosts explore whether this tech disruption differs from previous industrial revolutions.
TCP-Talks: Keep the Raccoons Out: Service Mesh, MCP, and Securing Agentic Workloads.
Linkerd creator William Morgan joins TCP Talks to explain why your data center now has a raccoon problem. We get into service mesh ten years on, why he thinks MCP is a red herring, and how to keep unconstrained agentic workloads from wandering into production and deleting the database. The fix, as it turns out, is mostly remembering to lock the door.
356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
Pope Leo on AI ethics and Labor, spy agencies buying models, and GitHub’s latest supply chain attack. Catch up on all the cloud news in Episode 356.
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 355
The Cloud Pod dives into granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock and the latest in AI and cloud news, minus Justin who was out on PTO.
355: The Cloud Pod’s AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick
Welcome to episode 355 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin is out, so Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt are holding down the fort to bring you…
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 353
Big tech earnings are in, and the results are full of surprises—plus a look at how cloud giants navigate government requests.
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 354
A major security vulnerability in Notepad.exe traced back to Microsoft’s Copilot integration raises questions about AI feature sprawl and responsible deployment.
354: US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation
Welcome to episode 354 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! This week was sort of a tire fire for the cloud, with US-East-1 losing power, TanStack…