About this podcast
Explore the evolving world of application delivery and security. Each episode will dive into technologies shaping the future of operations, analyze emerging trends, and discuss the impacts of innovations on the tech stack.
Episodes
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- AI governance: Shadow AI, real access, real risk · 21 min · Episode 64AI outputs may be polished, but in this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and returning guest Ken Arora focus on what happens when confidence meets…
- AI broke your app? It’s probably DNS (Again) · 22 min · Episode 63AI may be rewriting workflows and reshaping infrastructure, but this episode of Pop Goes the Stack argues that the future still depends on an old, unglamorous constant: DNS. F5's…
- Agentic fingerprints: Detect, debug, and control AI traffic · 20 min · Episode 62AI is everywhere, but success metrics and security controls haven’t quite caught up. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, hosts Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses are joined by Lee…
- AI code quality management: Guardrails, hooks, and Open Source · 22 min · Episode 61AI is letting teams produce code at a pace we’ve never had to govern before, and “we’ll review it later” doesn’t scale when later arrives after thousands of lines and dozens of…
- AI API Security: Same toolbox, new scale and new risks · 25 min · Episode 60AI API security is having a moment, complete with new tools and a shiny new market label. This episode asks the uncomfortable question: is it actually a new domain, or is it…
- Stop “securing the model”—Secure the runtime instead · 21 min · Episode 59“Securing the AI model” sounds like a clean, fundable story. In practice, it’s often the wrong security target. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie and…
- What actually is Model Routing? A deep dive into cost, efficiency & risk · 24 min · Episode 58Model routing sounds like a small architectural detail, but it’s quickly becoming the control point that determines whether AI systems are fast, affordable, and trustworthy. In…
- AI traffic management: Load balancing vs model routing · 23 min · Episode 57AI traffic looks like an API call, but it behaves nothing like traditional API traffic. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Scott Calvet…
- Agents go rogue: Why guardrails fail and behavior wins · 22 min · Episode 56AI agents bypassing controls isn’t a surprising “oops,” it’s an expected optimization outcome. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and…
- If your agent buys it, you bought it: Liability in AI · 20 min · Episode 55If an agent breaks it, you bought it. If it buys it, you bought it. That’s not a meme anymore, it’s becoming policy. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie and…
- AI blast radius: BOLA + MCP turned APIs into a 7,000-bot army · 19 min · Episode 54A developer wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. With Claude Code’s help, he reverse-engineered the protocol, pulled an auth token, and unintentionally…
- Epic AI fails: Why “useful” isn’t “correct” · 22 min · Episode 53AI “epic fails” aren’t just funny headlines; they’re patterns you can design against. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Buu Lam walk…
- Does your chatbot code? Why guardrails fail (and how to fix drift) · 22 min · Episode 52Chipotle’s chatbot becoming an unofficial coding assistant wasn’t just a funny internet moment. It was a clear signal that most chatbot “guardrails” are still too shallow for…
- The Great AI Repatriation: Why Cloud‑Only LLMs break the budget · 23 min · Episode 51AI isn’t “going to the cloud” the way the headlines promised. It’s going wherever the economics and the architecture force it to go, and that often means back on hardware you…
- Training vs Inference: Are they the same? · 21 min · Episode 50Training and inference get lumped together in casual AI conversations, but they behave differently enough that the distinction matters for cost, architecture, and security. In…
- Round Robin is Still Dumb: Load balancing has to grow up for AI inference · 21 min · Episode 49Round robin isn’t just “not ideal” for LLM inference. According to recent scheduling research, it’s actively harmful, because it treats inference like stateless, interchangeable…
- Mechanistic Interpretability: Debugging LLMs by reading their circuits · 23 min · Episode 48Mechanistic interpretability sounds academic until you try to debug a model with printf and realize there’s nothing to print. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori…
- Pop Goes the Stack will be back next week! · 1 minHi everyone! This is Lori MacVittie, host of Pop Goes the Stack. This week, we’re taking a short break to rest and recharge, spend time with loved ones, and maybe even step away…
- Agent Skills: The new AI supply chain risk (and fixes) · 23 min · Episode 47Agent skills were introduced less than six months ago, and they’ve already graduated from “handy configuration” to “supply chain artifact.” In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack…
- Is AI making security obsolete? · 20 min · Episode 46What happens if AI finally writes secure code by default? In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora take that question seriously, even…
