Telemetry Now
by Phil Gervasi
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Practical MLOps for Network Operations at Uber
Practical MLOps for Network Operations at Uber
About this podcast
Tired of network issues and finger-pointing? Do you know deep down that, yes, it probably is DNS? Well, you're in the right place.
Telemetry Now is the podcast that cuts through the noise. Join host Phil Gervasi and his expert guests as they demystify network intelligence, observability, and AIOps. We dive into emerging technologies, analyze the latest trends in IT operations, and talk shop about the engineering careers that make it all happen. Get ready to level up your understanding and let the packets wash over you.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 98 episodes
- Practical MLOps for Network Operations at Uber · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 66Host Philip Gervasi talks with Uber's Vishnu Acharya about how Uber applies machine learning and MLOps to network operations at hyperscale. Vishnu explains Uber’s intentionally…
- Inside Iran’s Internet Blackout · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 65A new wave of civil unrest in Iran has triggered one of the most severe communications crackdowns the country has seen, with disruptions extending beyond the internet to voice…
- After Maduro: Analyzing Venezuela’s Internet During Political Upheaval · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 64Host Philip Gervasi is joined by Andrés Azpúrua (Executive Director, VE sin Filtro / “Free and Secure Online”) and Kentik’s Doug Madory to examine what internet visibility can…
- Five AutoCons Later: What’s Really Holding Network Automation Back? · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 63Host Phil Gervasi talks with Chris Grundemann, cofounder of the Network Automation Forum and AutoCon, about why network automation still isn’t fully adopted after more than a…
- Beyond Chatbots: AI Reasoning at Scale with AI Advisor · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 62Kentik’s Mav Turner joins host Phil Gervasi to go beyond chatbot hype and dig into real AI reasoning for network operations. They discuss how Kentik AI Advisor uses network…
- What Exactly is a Pre-Sales Engineer? · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 61Host Philip Gervasi talks with Kentik pre-sales engineer Sean McGinley about what it really means to work in pre-sales. They unpack the various titles associated with those roles…
- AutoCon 4 Preview: Network Automation, Intelligence, and the Road Ahead · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 60Host Philip Gervasi and Kentik Field CTO Justin Ryburn preview the upcoming AutoCon 4 conference, one of the premier events for the networking industry. They discuss the growth…
- From Data to Decisions: How AI Turns Network Noise into Clarity · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 59Kentik CPO Mav Turner joins host Philip Gervasi to cut through the AI hype in NetOps. They discuss where ML and LLMs actually help—anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and…
- Tracking the Red Sea Cable Cuts with Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 58Doug Madory joins us to unpack the recent Red Sea submarine cable cuts and how Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map revealed the global impact in real-time, offering critical insight into…
- Turning Network Telemetry into Financial Insight · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 57Lauren Basile joins us to show how traffic-aware cost intelligence turns spreadsheet guesswork into one-click, per-slice cost estimates across customers, ASNs, and CDNs. Learn…
- From GPUs to Packets: The Critical Role of Networks in AI Data Centers · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 56AI training isn’t just about GPUs, it’s about the network that ties them together. Host Phil Gervasi sits down with Vijay Vusirikala to unpack why job completion time is the true…
- Neocloud and the Future of AI Operations · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 55In this episode of Telemetry Now, Phil and guest David Cliffe explore “neocloud”—what it is, why it’s growing fast, and how it’s reshaping AI infrastructure. From GPUs and…
- Telemetry News Now: Intel Spins Off Networking Business, Cisco Teams Up with Hugging Face, Broadcom’s Jericho4 Ethernet Fabric Router · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 54In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil Gervasi and Justin Ryburn tackle Intel’s plan to spin off its Network & Edge Group (NEX) and what it means for high‑performance Ethernet…
- Adding Context to Network Telemetry with Data Enrichment · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 53Phil Gervasi sits down with Kentik Product Marketing Manager Eric Hian-Cheong to discuss why data enrichment is the "secret sauce" that turns raw flow logs, metrics, and cloud…
- Telemetry News Now: Cloudflare DNS Outage, Acquisition Rumors, Submarine Cable Security, Alaska Airlines Outage, New COO at Arista · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 52In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil and Justin cover the global Cloudflare DNS outage, a rumored $10B SentinelOne acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, submarine cable security…
- Getting Started with Building AI Applications for IT Operations · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 51Ryan Booth, network engineer and AI developer, joins Philip Gervasi to explore the practical realities of building AI applications specifically for network and IT operations…
- Telemetry News Now: Cisco Wins Lawsuit, CoreWeave’s $9B Play, Google’s New Subsea Cable, and Rackspace’s New GPU-as-a-Service · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 50In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil and Justin cover Cisco’s big legal win, HPE’s finalized Juniper acquisition, Arista’s strategic move to buy VeloCloud, CoreWeave’s $9B…
- Telemetry News Now: AI Data Center Power Demands, Gartner’s AI Agent Prediction, AI Copyright Woes, 5G Infrastructure · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 49In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil and Justin discuss the future energy demands of AI infrastructure, including eye-opening predictions about GPU power consumption. They…
- Networking for Schools and Colleges · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 48In this episode of Telemetry Now, Jason Gintert and Philip Wightman join the show to look inside SLED networking (State, Local, and Education). We talk about the unique…
- Telemetry News Now: Cisco Announces New Infrastructure for AI, Lemony’s Low-Power AI-in-a-Box, Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6 · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 47In this Telemetry News Now episode, Phil and Justin cover Cisco's new infrastructure for AI, AI-in-a-box from Lemony, and the world's first 102.4 terabit switch from Broadcom. In…
