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Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn
Jun 10, 2026
56m 08s
Taking Down Prod with Eve
May 14, 2026
59m 28s
Laying the Foundation with Joe Beda
Apr 24, 2026
1h 11m 31s
Training The Future with Mark Russinovich
Mar 20, 2026
1h 05m 23s
Developing Measurements with Cat Hicks
Feb 25, 2026
1h 17m 54s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn✨ | free speechopen source+4 | Cindy Cohn | Electronic Frontier FoundationPrivacy's Defender | — | Cindy CohnElectronic Frontier Foundation+5 | — | 56m 08s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Taking Down Prod with Eve✨ | platform engineeringKubernetes+5 | Eve | KubernetesCI/CD+1 | — | platform engineeringKubernetes+5 | — | 59m 28s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Laying the Foundation with Joe Beda✨ | Kubernetestechnology+3 | Joe Beda | KubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform+1 | — | KubernetesJoe Beda+3 | FAFOFMFAFOFM | 1h 11m 31s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Training The Future with Mark Russinovich✨ | cloud disaster recoveryAI infrastructure+3 | Mark Russinovich | Azure | — | cloud disaster recoveryAI+3 | ArpioFAFOFM | 1h 05m 23s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() Developing Measurements with Cat Hicks✨ | engineer productivitysoftware teams+3 | Dr. Cat Hicks | Kubecon EU AmsterdamLinuxfest North West+2 | — | engineer productivityperformance measurement+4 | SoCal Linux ExpoFAFOF | 1h 17m 54s | |
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Embracing the Journey with Cassidy Williams✨ | developer relationsmemes+3 | Cassidy Williams | DevRel | — | developer relationsmemes+5 | — | 1h 00m 32s | |
| 12/15/25 | ![]() Objecting to storage✨ | cloud storageinternet outages+3 | — | Amazon s3 | — | Amazon S3outage+3 | NoPorts | 34m 31s | |
| 11/5/25 | ![]() Looking Forward with Tim Banks✨ | technologyAI+3 | Tim Banks | SideroOxide | — | modem baud ratepersonal identity+4 | — | 1h 14m 18s | |
| 10/9/25 | ![]() Staying Calm with Duffie Cooley✨ | career advicestartup experiences+3 | Duffie Cooley | CoreOSRed Hat+8 | — | Duffie Cooleycareer advice+5 | — | 1h 03m 35s | |
| 9/17/25 | ![]() Colocating Data with David Aronchick✨ | Kubernetesopen source+3 | David Aronchick | KubernetesKubeflow+5 | — | KubernetesKubeflow+3 | — | 1h 22m 29s | |
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| 8/16/25 | ![]() Building Trust with Sean Goedecke✨ | software developmentbig tech+3 | Sean Goedecke | big tech | — | software shippingbig tech experience+3 | — | 1h 04m 17s | |
| 7/16/25 | ![]() Cooling Infrastructure with Ellie Ford✨ | cooling infrastructurecloud computing+3 | Ellie Ford | KubernetesCloudLab+4 | — | cooling infrastructurecloud+3 | — | 1h 09m 03s | |
| 6/18/25 | ![]() Creating YAML with Ingy döt Net | Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS. Note: sorry about the audio issues in this episode. We did our best to clean it up.Links:https://helmys.org/https://yamlscript.org/https://exercism.org/https://yamlscript.org/ingydotnet/ | 1h 04m 48s | ||||||
| 5/23/25 | ![]() Writing bugs with K.S. Bhaskar | It's easy to talk about everything when you've been writing software for half a century. Bhaskar has some amazing insights from his impressive career building software using everything from punch cards to AI. If you like learning about the past to understand the future, this is an episode you don't want to miss.LinksYottaDB https://yottadb.com | 59m 08s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 | ![]() MCPing in the Open with Angie Jones | Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech.LinksAngie's website: https://angiejones.techGoose https://github.com/block/gooseAngie's Modern Day Mashups talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXq5qu55U | 58m 05s | ||||||
| 4/18/25 | ![]() Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela | After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior engineers to make our senior engineers better.LinksBluefin wallpapers https://github.com/ublue-os/packages/tree/main/packages/bluefin/wallpapersJustin’s talk with balloons and a spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mWGaBawR8Adriana on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adrianamvillela.bsky.social | 1h 14m 19s | ||||||
| 4/11/25 | ![]() Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot | Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode.LinksSeth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliotarpio https://arpio.io/services/EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-clusterDisaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.htmlDisaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience | 1h 02m 13s | ||||||
| 4/4/25 | ![]() Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper | Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if they wanted to offer the best cloud experience they could. Jake tells us how they accomplished the move in 9 months, why the built their own orchestrator, and what they’re working on next.Check out Railway at https://railway.com/ and their blog at https://blog.railway.com. Specifically read the post discussed in this episode. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one | 1h 01m 23s | ||||||
| 3/28/25 | ![]() Staying Curious with Scott Hanselman | You can't grow in technology without learning new things. But sometimes those new things are actually old things. We talk with Scott about a wide range of interests about software, video games, 3D printing, and food. If you want to know why junior engineers are important for your teams you need to listen.Highlights(0:00) What makes good engineers?(12:00) Vibe coding(19:00) Doom scrolling with intention(24:00) Making vs buying(26:00) Praising hard work(30:00) Loss of empathyLinksScott's website: https://www.hanselman.com/Hanselminutes Podcast: https://hanselminutes.com/Scott and Mark Learn to... Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0M0zPgJ3HSf4XZvYgZPUXgSrfzBN26pf | 40m 17s | ||||||
| 3/21/25 | ![]() Vectorizing Your Databases with Steve Pousty | What exactly is an LLM doing and why do you need to learn so many new terms? Steve Pousty is here to explain that most of those new terms are things you already know. It’s not new technology, it’s new words to describe technologies applied in a new field. We have a wild, ADHD roller coaster looping through embeddings, vectors, RAG, and LLMs. Make sure to keep your hands and arms inside the pod for this one.Chapters(0:00) Intro(9:00) Embeddings(19:00) Graph DB vs Vector DB(21:00) Vector Algebra(36:00) Open Source(41:00) Vector databases(51:00) What is RAG?(58:00) What is an LLM doing?(1:08:00) Dating adviceLinks• 🦋Steve on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/thesteve0.bsky.social• ▶️ Steve on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thesteve0 • 📍Voxel 51 https://voxel51.com/ • 🎮 Vector algebra game https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ • 📘The Alignment Problem https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Problem-Machine-Learning-Values/dp/0393635821 • 🎥 Mitchells vs The Machines https://www.netflix.com/title/81399614 • 📀 MNIST dataset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database • 📝 What ChatGPT is not https://blog.techravenconsulting.com/what-chatgpt-is-not/ • 📝 Why I am excited about ChatGPT https://blog.techravenconsulting.com/why-i-am-excited-about-chatgpt/ | 1h 12m 22s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 | ![]() Testing Your Performance with Ada Lundhe | How Rachel Ray’s crawler lead to Ada developing a new performance testing framework, hyperscale. This leads to a great conversation about the benefits of rust, modern python package managers, and why MySpace went out of business. The importance of connecting what you’re building to business value and understanding every line of code has a cost.Show Highlights(0:00) Intro(8:00) Rachel Ray crawler(15:00) Performance testing(20:00) Moving in to tech(31:00) Hyperscale and uv (39:00) Does memory safety matter?(43:00) Datavant(54:00) Connecting performance to business(1:02:00) Spicy takesLinks ReferencedPerformance testing tools:https://locust.io/https://k6.io/https://github.com/hyper-light/hyperscaleModern Python packaging: https://github.com/astral-sh/uvFAFO starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/LqoyyNqSponsor FAFO at https://fafo.fm/sponsor | 1h 11m 34s | ||||||
| 3/7/25 | ![]() Getting to Know Kafka with Elad Eldor | Is running Kafka on-prem different than running it in the cloud? You’ll find out from Elad Eldor’s years of experience running, tuning, and troubleshooting Kafka in production environments. Elad didn’t set out to learn Kafka, but he kept asking questions and was given the opportunity to dive deep into system performance. He not only knows what all the columns of iostat mean, he knows what his customers want. Make sure to subscribe to this topic on all your consumers.Show Highlights(0:00) Intro(9:30) Why do people use Kafka (15:00) Learning cloud vs on-prem(18:30) Kafka vs Linux troubleshooting(27:00) scaling clusters(38:00) How to get startedLinks ReferencedElad’s book: Kafka Troubleshooting in Production https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production-Stabilizing-premises-ebook/dp/B0CJ4FSGMDSystems Performance book by Brendan Gregg https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2020-07-15/systems-performance-2nd-edition.htmlKafka: The Definitive Guide book by Neha Narkhede https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Definitive-Real-Time-Stream-Processing/dp/1491936169Sponsorhttps://www.softwaredefinedtalk.comSponsor FAFO at https://fafo.fm/sponsor | 54m 33s | ||||||
| 2/28/25 | ![]() FAFO Live with Sam Rose | Sam is back with us for a live episode where we discuss important questions such as “is coffee is good?”, “are people on the Internet good writers?”, and “is content creation consistency actually important?” We also share links about turning your hand writing into a font and hacking McDonald’s delivery app. Finally, we wrap up with a new game FAANG GANG.Chapters(0:00) Intro(9:00) Codifying your handwriting(10:30) I’m loving it(27:00) Consistency in content(39:00) FAANG gang gameLinks SharedCodifying your Handwriting https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascriptI’m lovin’ it https://eaton-works.com/2024/12/19/mcdelivery-india-hack/SponsorVocalCat: https://fafo.fm/vocalcatSponsor the FAFO Podcast!https://fafo.fm/sponsor | 51m 02s | ||||||
| 2/21/25 | ![]() Animating the Stack with Sam Rose | This episode is stacked with information. You could even say “full stacked.” Sam has built and run some large scale systems as a SRE at Google, now building backend services at Budibase, and he spends his free time teaching others how systems work at understandable scale. We dive into what makes Google SRE different from other companies, what it’s like to be a parent, and how Sam got started with building animations for his blog. Don’t forget to visit and check out the easter eggs he’s hidden throughout.Show Highlights0:00 - Intro2:00 - Sam’s background6:00 - How Google did SRE15:00 - Importance of docs19:00 - The problems with Java26:00 - Budibase32:00 - Borg vs Kubernetes 39:00 - Building animations46:00 - Being a better teacher56:00 - Art in the age of AI1:00:00 - What’s nextLinks ReferencedSRE book https://sre.google/books/Sam’s Blog https://samwho.dev/Budibase - https://budibase.com/Bartosz Ciechanowski’s website - https://ciechanow.ski/Life Animated book - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Animated-Sidekicks-Heroes-Autism/dp/1484741234Andy Matuschak’s website - https://andymatuschak.org/Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) - https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22xSponsorThe sponsor for this week is YOU!Please share and rate this episode!https://fafo.fm/sponsor | 1h 12m 12s | ||||||
| 2/14/25 | ![]() Predicting Bluesky’s Scale with Jaz | Bluesky has been on a roller coaster of growth for over a year. From the early days of figuring out a new distributed social protocol—AT protocol—to actually building it and inviting 30 million of their closest friends. Not only has the site gone through tremendous growth, the team has been optimizing, re-architecting, and adding features the entire time.Jaz is a software engineer focused on the infrastructure at Bluesky, and they share how they achieved exponential growth without exponential costs. We cover some of the key components of the protocol and how that affects the architecture.There’s some amazing advice from the trenches we know you’ll enjoy.Show Highlights(0:00) Intro(5:00) Jaz’s background(12:30) Bluesky Infrastructure(17:00) Predicting the future(20:00) What is a PDS?(22:30) Relay and firehose(26:00) Work queues(30:00) Scaling physical servers(37:00) How do you handle incidents?(41:00) Where’s Kubernetes?(43:30) How video changes(45:00) Data locality(46:30) Hardware decisions(53:00) What bad decisions?(57:00) Launching video(1:00:00) What’s next?About JazJaz is a software engineer who learned from on-the-job experience. They have a background with hardware which makes them better with software. If they’re not drinking Monster they’re building a single purpose database, or maybe they’re doing both. Jaz went from building with AT protocol to building AT protocol in a matter of months. They also have an impressive collection of plushies and power tools.Sponsor the FAFO Podcast!http://fafo.fm/sponsor | 1h 04m 10s | ||||||
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