Screaming in the Cloud
by Corey Quinn
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About this podcast
Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
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- Building the Cloud for AI Agents with Cloudflare's Dane Knecht and Rita Kozlov · 46 min · Episode 682What happens when AI agents become the primary users of the cloud? In this live episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Cloudflare's Dane Knecht and Rita…
- AI Should Solve the Problem, Not Deflect the Customer · 31 min · Episode 681Corey Quinn sits down with Pasquale DeMaio, VP of Amazon Connect Customer , to talk about how Agentic AI is reshaping customer service, and why replacing humans isn’t necessarily…
- Open Source and the Future of Databases with German Eichberger · 24 min · Episode 680What happens when open source, AI, and decades of database technology collide? Corey Quinn sits down with German Eichberger, Principal AI Engineering Manager at Microsoft, to…
- The Invisible Network Powering AWS with Matt Rehder · 37 min · Episode 679AWS VP of Global Networking Matt Rehder joins Corey Quinn to pull back the curtain on the massive network infrastructure behind AWS. They explore resiliency at scale, AWS’s move…
- AI Can Do the Work, But Should It? with Adam Larsen · 30 min · Episode 678On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Adam Larsen, Principal Developer at Aurora Educational Technologies, to explore what technology and AI…
- When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson · 30 min · Episode 677AI-generated code is no longer just producing low-quality pull requests. According to AWS Principal Engineer and Valkey core maintainer Madelyn Olson, the quality of AI-assisted…
- The Appalachian Cloud Trail: Hiking, Cloud Economics, and Finding Perspective · 33 min · Episode 676What happens when two cloud economists leave AWS behind and spend six days hiking 60 miles on the Appalachian Trail? Corey Quinn sits down with Caleb Hurd to share stories from…
- Coding Agents, Chaos, and the Future of Dev Work with Dexter Horthy · 33 min · Episode 674In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Dexter Horthy, CEO and Co-founder of Human Layer, to unpack what engineers are getting wrong about AI, especially when it comes to…
- The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek · 31 min · Episode 675In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to explore the next evolution of DevOps. After two decades of building systems to reduce…
- Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas · 29 min · Episode 673AI agents are moving fast, but the infrastructure behind them is still catching up. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Paper Compute CEO Brian…
- The Power of Saying No: Growing by Narrowing Your Focus with Corey Quinn · 29 min · Episode 672What happens when you stop trying to serve everyone, and start focusing on the right customers? In this episode, Corey Quinn sits down with Corey Quinn (yes, really) to talk…
- Build vs Buy: The Hidden Costs of “Just Building It” with Ahmed Bebars · 43 min · Episode 671Just because you can build it doesn’t mean you should. In this episode, Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer at The New York Times, joins Corey Quinn to talk about real-world cloud…
- FinOps, AI, and the Cost of Cloud Chaos with J.R. Storment · 48 min · Episode 670What happens when cloud economics meets the messy reality of business, AI, and human behavior? Corey and J.R. Storment unpack why cloud cost management is less about math and…
- Everything Is a Graph (Even Your Dad Jokes) with Roi Lipman · 39 min · Episode 669In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, host Corey Quinn sits down with Roi Lipman, CTO and co-founder of Falco DB, to unpack the evolving role of graph databases in a world…
- AI, Authenticity, and the Future of Podcasting with Chris Hill · 27 min · Episode 668This week on Screaming in the Cloud, Corey sits down with Chris Hill, CEO of Humble Pod, to talk about the messy, nuanced reality of AI in media. From secretly cloning Corey’s…
- Coding Agents and the Inevitable AI Bubble with Eric Anderson · 29 min · Episode 667Eric Anderson, partner at VC firm Scale, talks about why coding agents changed software forever and why the AI bubble can't be avoided. Eric worked on Spot Instances at AWS and…
- Fixing Shadow AI and Surviving re:Invent with Chase Douglas · 33 min · Episode 666Chase Douglas, CEO at Archodex, talks about AI security problems and why re:Invent has become a nightmare. Chase helps companies capture every AI interaction so they don't get in…
- Building Software While Keeping Humans in Charge · 30 min · Episode 665Alyss Noland, who works on Cloud Dev Ecosystem at Nvidia, is back on the show to talk about building software with AI when you're not a real developer. Alyss runs a program that…
- How Homebrew Became Mac's Package Manager with Mike McQuaid · 41 min · Episode 664Mike McQuaid, Project Leader of Homebrew, joins Corey Quinn to share how a package manager conceived in a London pub became essential for 10 million Mac users. Homebrew lets you…
- Is It Broken Everywhere or Just for Me with Omri Sass · 31 min · Episode 663When your website stops working at 3 AM, you need to answer one question fast: Is it my code or is a big cloud provider having problems? Omri Sass from Datadog explains updog.ai…
- Solving the 20-Year S3 File System Problem with Hunter Leath · 32 min · Episode 662Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs…
- Building Systems That Work Even When Everything Breaks with Ben Hartshorne · 36 min · Episode 661When AWS has a major outage, what actually happens behind the scenes? Ben Hartshorne, a principal engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey Quinn to discuss a recent AWS outage and how…
- Engineering Around Extreme S3 Scale with R. Tyler Croy · 34 min · Episode 660R. Tyler Croy, a principal engineer at Scribd, joins Corey Quinn to explain what happens when simple tasks cost $100,000. Checking if files are damaged? $100K. Using newer S3…
- Avery Pennarun on Tailscale's Evolution: From Mesh VPN to AI Security Gateway · 44 min · Episode 659Corey Quinn sits down with Avery Pennarun, co-founder and CEO of Tailscale, for a deep dive into how the company is reinventing networking for the modern era. From finally making…
- How Grokability Built a Profitable Open Source Business with Jeremy Price · 31 min · Episode 658Most open source companies do the same thing. They take investor money, lock their best features behind paywalls, sell the company, and disappoint everyone. Grokability did…
- The AI Productivity Gap with Keith Townsend · 41 min · Episode 657Corey Quinn reconnects with Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor, for a candid conversation about the massive gap between AI hype and enterprise reality. Keith shares why a…
- AI Agents, Enterprise Risk, and the Future of Recovery: Rubrik’s Vision with Dev Rishi · 36 min · Episode 656In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Rubrik’s GM of AI, Dev Rishi, to unpack the real story behind enterprise AI adoption, the rise of agentic…
- From Code to Cash: How André Arko Builds Better Tools and Gets Paid for Open Source · 41 min · Episode 655André Arko, CEO of Spinel Cooperative and longtime Bundler maintainer, joins Corey Quinn to introduce RV, a new Ruby tool that installs Ruby in one second instead of 10-40…
- Cyber Resilience Beyond Prevention with Anneka Gupta · 34 min · Episode 654When attackers are smart enough to hit your backups, recovery becomes your best defense. Rubrik’s Chief Product Officer, Anneka Gupta, joins host Corey Quinn to break down what…
- Cloud Repatriation: Because Conspiracy Theories Are Cheaper with Deana Solis · 40 min · Episode 653Deana Solis, 2022 FinOps Foundation Evangelist of the Year, joins Corey Quinn to discuss her winding career path from electrical engineering to healthcare IT to FinOps. She…
- Five Slot Machines at Once: Chris Weichel on the Future of Software Development · 41 min · Episode 652On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey welcomes back Chris Weichel, CTO of Ona (formerly Gitpod). Chris explains the rebrand and why Ona is building for a future where…
- From Aurora to PlanetScale: Intercom’s Database Evolution with Brian Scanlan · 44 min · Episode 651Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, the company building Fin.ai, joins Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss Intercom’s move from AWS Aurora to…
- Conversations at the Intersection of AI and Code with Harjot Gill · 34 min · Episode 650AI is rewriting the rules of code review and CodeRabbit is leading the charge. In this featured episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Harjot Gill shares with Corey Quinn how his…
- The Transformation Trap: Why Software Modernization Is Harder Than It Looks · 33 min · Episode 649In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Jonathan Schneider, CEO of Moderne and author on Java microservices and automated code remediation. They explore…
- AI's Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You · 1 h 5 min · Episode 648On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and creator of LLM CLI about AI’s realities versus the hype. They dive into…
- Betting on AI: The Delusion Driving Big Tech · 1 h 8 min · Episode 647In this deep-dive episode, Corey Quinn and Ed Zitron break down the complex and often murky world of AI and the tech giants fueling today’s rapid innovation. From Nvidia’s…
- Reliable Software by Default with Jeremy Edberg · 36 min · Episode 646Reliable software shouldn't be an accident, but for most developers it is. Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS and the guy who scaled Reddit and Netflix, joins Corey Quinn to talk about…
- See Why GenAI Workloads Are Breaking Observability with Wayne Segar · 33 min · Episode 645What happens when you try to monitor something fundamentally unpredictable? In this featured guest episode, Wayne Segar from Dynatrace joins Corey Quinn to tackle the messy…
- Presenting at re:Invent with Matt Berk and Bowen Wang · 37 min · Episode 644How do you wrangle the chaos of AWS cost tools and live presentations? In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn is joined by AWS’s Bowen Wang and Matt Berk to break…
- The Latest State of IaC with Ido Neeman · 43 min · Episode 643What’s going on with Infrastructure as Code? On this episode, Corey is joined by Firefly CEO and Co-Founder Ido Neeman to discuss the findings of the State of IaC 2025 report…
- Opening the Managed NAT Gateway with Malith Rajapakse · 28 min · Episode 642How does one manage to simplify the complexities of the NAT Gateway? In this episode of "Screaming in the Cloud," Corey Quinn interviews Malith Rajapakse, a DevOps engineer who…
- The Latest on Microsoft Security with Ann Johnson · 35 min · Episode 641Microsoft has its fingers in a lot of pots, but just how secure are said pots? On this episode, Corey is joined by Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President and Deputy CISO of…
- Finding Engineers with Empathy with Lili Rogowsky · 31 min · Episode 640If you believed, they put a data center on the moon. No, for real, they did, and it’s partially thanks to Lili Rogowsky, partner at Atypical Ventures. Lili joins Corey to discuss…
- Making Dropping and Sharing Easy with Timo Josten · 31 min · Episode 639Dropping and sharing files should be easy. What a novel idea. On this episode, Corey speaks with Timo Josten, the sole developer behind Dropshare. We bring up the fact that he’s…
- “Just in Case” vs. “Just in Time” with Aditya Bhargava · 33 min · Episode 638How you learn is important. Corey Quinn is joined by Aditya Bhargava, a Staff Software Engineer at Etsy and the author of Grokking Algorithms. They talk about the nuances of…
- The Current State of Cloud Security with Crystal Morin · 37 min · Episode 637Sysdig’s 2025 Cloud-Native and Security Usage Report is hot off the presses, and Corey has questions. On this episode, he’s joined by Crystal Morin, a Cybersecurity Strategist at…
- The Difference Between Marketing and BS with Jonathan Cowperthwait · 32 min · Episode 636What’s the difference between marketing and BS? On this episode, Corey Quinn is joined by Jonathan Cowperthwait, Duckbill’s brand-new Head of Marketing. Jonathan's career path is…
- Kicking Off a Tech Career as a Preteen with Alex Zenla · 31 min · Episode 635What were you doing at the age of 12? We’d wager to bet you weren’t getting invited to Google I/O. On this episode, Corey chats with Alex Zenla, the founder and CTO of Edera…
- S3 and the Evolution of Storage with Andy Warfield · 37 min · Episode 634Andy Warfield joins Corey in this episode to discuss the evolution of storage technology at Amazon. This includes the evolution of S3 from archival storage to supporting modern…
- Evolving, Adapting, and Staying Prepared with Brian Weber · 35 min · Episode 633Ever wondered how Corey got to where he is today? You have Brian Weber to partially thank for that. On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey catches up with his old…
