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The SoftwarePlaza IT podcast keeps you up-to-date with all that’s happening in the world of the IT community. Learn about the latest news, best practices, reviews, and how-to’s. Subscribe and listen to more SoftwarePlaza podcast episodes or visit www.softwareplaza.com.
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In this episode, we sit down with Lana Malikova, Channel Partnership Manager EMEA at Superhuman, alongside Kseniia Shalyhina, Solutions Architect at Superhuman. The conversation explores how Superhuman is uniting Grammarly, Coda, and Superhuman Mail into a single AI-powered platform for enterprise collaboration.Lana shares deep insights into channel partnerships, ecosystem strategy, and what it takes to scale AI solutions across EMEA. Together, they discuss the shift from standalone tools to an integrated AI platform, real enterprise use cases, and how partners can drive adoption responsibly. A must-listen for anyone interested in AI, partnerships, and the future of enterprise productivity.
Kat explains how security risks, mounting technical debt, and maintainer burnout made the shutdown unavoidable.The conversation explores what the retirement means for platform teams, why there is no true drop-in replacement, and what migration to alternatives like Gateway API really involves.The episode also offers insight into Kubernetes governance and the hard decisions required to protect critical open source infrastructure.
In this episode, we speak with Gerrit Schumann, CEO & Co-Founder of mogenius, about treating internal developer platforms as real software products. Gerrit shares lessons from decades in software and cloud transformation, and explains why platform engineering must focus on reducing cognitive load for both developers and platform teams.The conversation explores Kubernetes maturity, GitOps with Argo CD, build vs buy decisions, and how mogenius helps teams create golden paths without hiding complexity. Gerrit also offers a look ahead at how AI will reshape platform operations and developer experience.
In this episode of the Software Plaza Podcast, Twain Taylor speaks with William Morgan, CEO & Co-Founder of Buoyant, the company behind the popular service mesh Linkerd. William shares hard-earned lessons on building a profitable business around open source, why “free” isn’t sustainable, and how Buoyant transitioned from VC-backed growth to profitability. The discussion also explores service mesh adoption, cutting AWS networking costs, and how Linkerd is evolving to support AI workloads and MCP traffic in Kubernetes. A must-listen for platform engineers, founders, and open-source builders navigating scale and sustainability.
In this episode, we speak with Sanjay Kosuri, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Egnyte, about how AI is transforming the way organizations manage, understand, and act on content. Sanjay shares why content sits at the heart of every business decision and how Egnyte blends collaboration, intelligence, and governance into a single platform.The conversation explores generative AI, agent-based workflows, and how technology teams can move faster by extracting insights from complex, mission-critical content. A deep dive into the future of intelligent content-driven work.
In this episode Nir Valtman, Co-Founder & CEO of Arnica, elaborates how application security is evolving in an AI-driven development world. Nir shares his journey as a security practitioner and the motivation behind building Arnica, an Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform focused on real developer workflows. The conversation dives deep into AI-generated code risks, meaning-based vs rule-based security findings, and how embedding security directly into Git workflows can dramatically reduce vulnerabilities before code review. Nir also explains Arnica’s bold approach to offering visibility for free while driving real impact through automation and developer-first adoption.
In this episode, Colin Griffin, Founder and CEO of Krumware, talks about how platform engineering has evolved beyond DevOps and internal developer platforms. Colin shares a practical, experience-driven perspective on building platforms as products that support developers, infrastructure, security, and data teams, drawing on real-world lessons and ideas aligned with the CNCF Platform Engineering White Paper: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whit.... The conversation explores why platform engineering is as much about culture and user experience as it is about technology, and what organizations should consider when starting or evolving their platform journey. Colin also discusses common pitfalls teams face when adopting platforms and how treating platforms as long-term products can drive better adoption, collaboration, and business outcomes.
In this episode we welcome Sonal Khanna, the Co-Founder at Secure Blink, to unpack how AI is reshaping application and API security. Sonal shares her journey of building Secure Blink and the thinking behind THREATSPY, a developer-first, AI-powered security platform. The conversation dives into why traditional security tools fall short, how reachability-based prioritization changes remediation, and why security must move at the speed of development. Sonal also discusses Secure Blink’s global recognition, including its selection for an AI accelerator in Paris, and what the future holds for API-first security teams.
In this episode, Kerim Satirli, Senior Developer Advocate II at IBM, who walks us through the major developments happening across the HashiCorp ecosystem since we last spoke. Kerim breaks down key updates such as Terraform Stacks, Actions, Search, and Infragraph, along with the debut of Vault Radar, which scans codebases and collaboration tools to uncover leaked or unmanaged secrets before they become incidents. He also reflects on industry trends—from the surge of MCP-powered AI agents to the growing urgency around supply-chain security highlighted by the ongoing Shi Hulud NPM attack, offering a clear view of how modern infrastructure and security practices are evolving.
In this episode, Taylor Dolezal, Head of Open Source at Dosu.dev, for a thoughtful deep dive into the evolving world of documentation and knowledge management. Taylor shares his journey from the CNCF to Dosu.dev, why he returned to his open-source roots, and how Dosu is reimagining documentation as a living, dynamic system. We discuss the fragmentation of knowledge across tools, AI’s role in documentation, and the emerging need for context-aware, fact-driven docs tailored to each user. Taylor also walks us through Dosu.dev’s unique approach—bringing structured facts, citations, and automation into docs to help maintainers and enterprises stay sane in an accelerating world.Check out a rich conversation on the past, present, and future of docs in open source and beyond.
In this episode, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, shares how the company is transforming enterprise storage with a blend of performance, resilience, and simplicity. From the power of InfiniSafe’s cyber-storage capabilities to the intelligence behind InfiniVerse and AI-driven automation, Eric explains how Infinidat delivers unmatched reliability and scalability while tackling modern IT challenges like skill shortages and data protection.
In this episode, Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk, shares how the company is driving the next wave of innovation in observability through OpenTelemetry.Steve dives into how open standards are eliminating vendor lock-in, streamlining telemetry data, and delivering unified visibility across today’s cloud-native environments. He discusses best practices for scalable data pipelines, auto-instrumentation, and semantic conventions that enhance monitoring precision. The conversation also looks ahead to the future of observability, covering performance profiling, real-user experience, and AI-driven workloads. This led to showcasing how OpenTelemetry is redefining how teams measure and optimize system reliability.
In this episode Itiel Shwartz, Co-founder and CTO at Komodor, shares how his team is reimagining site reliability with Claudia AI, an autonomous system that detects, investigates, and remediates Kubernetes issues in real time. Itiel discusses the evolution from early AIOps concepts to today’s multi-agent architectures, where AI handles repetitive operations and frees engineers to focus on innovation. He also explores the challenges of accuracy, hallucination control, and balancing automation with human oversight. The conversation offers a deep look at how Komodor’s AI agents are shaping the next generation of reliability engineering in the age of large language models.
Weaviate CEO & Co-Founder Bob van Luijt talks about how vector databases evolved into AI-native databases and why that matters for engineers building production AI.The conversation covers core use cases (vector search, RAG), the new wave of database-level agents (query & transformation agents), multi-tenancy and storage optimizations, and practical notes on getting started with Weaviate’s cloud and free tier. Expect clear explanations, a short demo video walkthrough, and product lessons from scaling an open-source database.
In this episode of The Software Plaza Podcast, we speak with Brad Micklea, Co-Founder and CEO of Jozu, a platform built to simplify and secure AI/ML deployment. Brad shares his journey from Red Hat and AWS to founding Jozu, diving deep into the challenges of taking AI models from experimentation to production. He explains how Jozu bridges the gap between data science, engineering, and operations, ensuring models are compliant, secure, and production-ready. Tune in to explore how open source, Kubernetes, and model packaging standards like KitOps are shaping the future of enterprise AI.
In this episode, Pavlo Baron, Co-founder & CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, shares how Formae is transforming platform engineering by replacing brittle YAML/JSON configs with smart, codified abstractions. Built on an agent-based system, Formae simplifies collaboration, reduces toil, and bridges the gap between developers and ops ushering in a faster, more reliable era of infrastructure management. He explains how Formae enables granular, patch-based changes to minimize blast radius and why modern infrastructure tools must evolve for speed, collaboration, and simplicity. It’s a fresh take on platform engineering designed for the realities of today’s distributed systems and teams.
In this episode, Sarah Polan, Transformational CTO and Consultant in Digital Infrastructure & Scalability, explores how large financial institutions are rethinking modernization in the era of AI. Sarah shares insights from real-world transformation projects, from navigating compliance-driven change under DORA regulations to tackling AI integration challenges and infrastructure modernization. She also unpacks why 95% of AI pilots fail, the importance of cultural leadership in tech transformations, and what it takes to future-proof an organization’s infrastructure for AI scalability.
Chris Lentricchia, Product Marketing Manager at Upwind, explains how runtime context turns thousands of scan alerts into the few that actually matter. Learn how Upwind’s eBPF-powered platform detects live exploits, reduces false positives, and helps teams secure production workloads efficiently. He also shares how organizations can move beyond static scanning, balance shift-left and shift-right practices, and achieve real-time visibility without adding system overhead. This conversation is packed with insights for cloud-native, DevOps, and security teams aiming to modernize runtime protection.
Jake Moshenko, Co-founder & CEO of AuthZed, gives a deep dive into relationship-based access control — the model behind SpiceDB and inspired by Google’s Zanzibar. This episode explains how modeling relationships (people↔data↔teams) unlocks fine-grained, portable policies and why treating auth as a database matters for caching, consistency, and scale. Jake also contrasts RBAC/ABAC tradeoffs, shows how centralized auth speeds product iteration, and outlines when teams should stop DIYing permissions. Ideal for architects and security leads rethinking access control.
Steve Fenton, Head of DevRel & Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus, shares findings from Octopus’ Platform Engineering Pulse research. He explains why making security and operational policies mandatory often drives healthier platform adoption, how GitOps and Argo are shaping deployments, and which metrics (DORA / Monk) actually matter for platform success. Short, practical, and research-backed takeaways for platform teams and engineering leaders.
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