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Conversations about building software and designing architecture in the cloud natively.
Update frequency:
every 34 days
Average audio length:
57 minutes
English
United States
36 episodes
since March 8, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Episode 0035 - Reliability vs Complexity: Where to Draw the Line
Reliability is often confused with availability, and Carl and Brandon dig into why stacking more safeguards — retries, circuit breakers, asynchronous queues, and multi-region failover — frequently makes systems less reliable rather t…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Episode 0034 - Build vs Buy in 2026 (Yes, We Mean AI)
Build versus buy has been part of software since there was software to buy — custom development, licensed components, SaaS, managed service providers — and the deciding factor was usually what staff you already had or could afford to hire. What…
Episode 0033 - Route of All Evil
Cloud networking still breaks when teams assume the platform will "just handle it," and Carl and Brandon dig into why. They challenge that myth and show where parity falls apart across providers: VNet, VPC, and VCN primitives look familiar but behave differently in…
Episode 0032 - Rolling, Rolling, Rolling…
Logs are ground truth — high-fidelity, event-level data that anchor observability alongside metrics and traces. Carl and Brandon argue the biggest mistake teams make is treating "more logs" as "better logs." If everything is logged, nothing is useful, and …
Episode 0031 - AI All the Things?
Traditional sprint ceremonies start getting in the way when AI-assisted development outpaces the cadence they were built for. Carl and Brandon unpack why that happens and what to do about it — starting with the basics. Brandon defines context windows, distinguishe…
Episode 0030 - Local‑First Lifeboats: Architecting for Post‑EOL Usability
This episode is about designing for the last day, not just the launch day. Carl kicks off with the Bose SoundTouch situation: a vendor moves toward EOL on a cloud-tethered API, users push back, and the outcome (at least in s…
Episode 0029 - New Year's ☁️ Resolutions
"In 2026, your cloud is not allowed to have the same incidents for the same reasons as last year." Carl and Brandon treat this episode like a retrospective (the kind any good agile team would run), but instead of talking about sprint tickets, they write a N…
Episode 0028 - Respect My (DNS) Awe-Thor-Ih-TAY!!
Your cloud is humming along, then an edge breaks. What lever do you actually still have to steer users? In this episode, Carl and Brandon dig into DNS as a control plane and why "it is always DNS" keeps being true in 2025. DNS was designed for a sl…
Episode 0027 - Whoops, No VM's!!!
You've planned for redundancy, scaling, and failover, but what happens when the cloud itself runs out of space? In this episode, Carl and Brandon untangle capacity (what the provider physically or logically has available in a region or zone) versus quota (the soft…
Episode 0026 - Are Your Cloud Costs Too Damn High???
Cloud cost optimization is about designing systems that perform efficiently without wasting money. In this episode, Carl and Brandon break down how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud help teams rightsize compute, manage storage tiers, and control netw…
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