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The New Stack Podcast

The New Stack

The New Stack Podcast

The New Stack

The New Stack Podcast is all about the developers, software engineers and operations people who build at-scale architectures that change the way we develop and deploy software. For more content from The New Stack, subscribe on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewStack

2 DAYS AGO

How Microsoft is governing thousands of Kubernetes clusters without manual intervention

Managing Kubernetes at fleet scale introduces significant complexity, especially as organizations expand from a few clusters to hundreds or thousands across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. While GitOps remains the dominant model for declarative ...

3 DAYS AGO

Why long-running AI agents break on HTTP and how Ably is fixing it

In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Matthew O’Riordan, CEO of Ably, explains how infrastructure originally built for human collaboration is now well-suited for long-running AI agents. While Ably initially resisted positioning itself as an AI company, t...

4 DAYS AGO

Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert

Agentic AI is advancing rapidly, with open-source projects racing to keep pace with real-world deployment. To accelerate progress, the Linux Foundation consolidated key technologies—Model Context Protocol (MCP), Goose, and AGENTS.md—under the newly formed ...

May 01

Fresh data has us asking, does AI demand Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is rapidly emerging as the de facto operating system for AI, with two-thirds of organizations using it for generative AI inference and 82% adopting it in production. Its ecosystem — including tools like Kubeflow — enables organizations to build,...

Apr 30

How SUSE positions itself as the infrastructure layer for the AI era

In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers,Pete Smailsoutlines howSUSEis evolving from its Linux roots into an AI-native infrastructure platform. Speaking atKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Smails explains the company’s strategy to unify AI, containers an...

Apr 29

Cut AI token usage by 96%? Here’s how AWS Strands Agents does it.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, AWS developer advocate Morgan Willis demonstrates Strands Agents, an open source agentic framework with rapid adoption since its launch. Using a simple accounting API, she walks through three approaches to retrievin...

Apr 28

Why Broadcom is betting on a private cloud comeback

Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is evolving from a turnkey infrastructure stack into a modern application platform, balancing simplicity with the flexibility demanded by Kubernetes-driven environments. AtKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Broad...

Apr 25

Why Broadcom gave Velero to the CNCF Sandbox — and what it means for Kubernetes data protection

Broadcom continues to expand its role as a major contributor to cloud-native open source, particularly within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem. Its recent donation of Velero—originally developed by VMware—to the CNCF Sandbox reflects ...

Apr 24

Why AI engineering needs old-school discipline

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Nimisha Asthagiri of Thoughtworks explores why many AI initiatives stall between proof of concept and production. A key issue is that organizations focus on speed—asking how to move faster—rather than rethinking wha...

Apr 23

Jim Bugwadia on why finding a Kubernetes problem is only half the battle for Kyverno users

Graduating within the CNCF marks a major milestone for an open source project, signaling not just technical maturity but strong governance, security practices, and widespread adoption. Kyverno, a Kubernetes policy engine, reached this stage after five year...

Apr 22

How AWS Bedrock is shaping Model Context Protocol

At the MCP Summit in New York City, AWS’s Luca Chang, a Bedrock team member and MCP specification maintainer, discussed the rapid rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a standard for connecting AI models and agents to tools and data. He explained tha...

Apr 21

Why Microsoft is betting on temporary identities to stop autonomous agents from going rogue

AtKubeCon Europe 2026,Jorge Palmaoutlined how Microsoft is advancing AI operations across cloud and edge environments. He demonstrated an agent capable of diagnosing, mitigating, and explaining application issues in minutes, highlighting the growing role o...

Apr 16

As agentic AI explodes, Amazon doubles down on MCP

At the MCP Summit inNew York City,Clare LiguoriofAmazon Web Servicesdiscussed the rapid rise of theModel Context Protocol(MCP), now a leading way to connect AI agents with tools and data. Originally developed byAnthropicand later transferred to theLinux Fo...

Apr 15

A year in, Google wants its Axion processors to feel like a scheduling decision

At KubeCon Europe, Google Cloud’s Jago Macleod and Abdel Sghiouar argued that adopting Arm for Kubernetes workloads has shifted from a complex migration to a practical, low-friction choice. After a year of production use, Google’s custom Arm-based Axion pr...

Apr 14

Can you make Kubernetes invisible? Here's why AWS is on a mission to do it.

In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Jesse Butler, principal product manager for AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, shares his vision for simplifying cloud-native computing. Since joining AWS in 2020, Butler has focused on making Kubernetes easier to use, ...

Apr 09

The next stages of AI conformance in the cloud-native, open-source world

Running AI models on Kubernetes has historically been inconsistent, with workloads behaving differently across cloud providers due to variations in GPUs, networking, and autoscaling. As organizations move AI from experimentation to production, standardizat...

Apr 08

Microsoft wants to make service mesh invisible

At KubeCon EU 2026, Mitch Connors of Microsoft outlined a vision to make service meshes effectively invisible to users. Now working on Azure Kubernetes Application Network, a fully managed service built on Istio’s ambient mode, Connors aims to deliver core...

Apr 07

Amazon EKS Auto Mode wants to end Kubernetes toil — one node at a time

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, Alex Kestner, principal product manager for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), discussed how Amazon EKS Auto Mode aims to reduce the operational burden of running Kubernetes at scale. While Kubern...

Apr 01

Edge-forward: Akamai eyes sweet spot between centralized & decentralized AI inference

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Lena Hall and Thorsten Hans of Akamai outlined how the company is evolving from a CDN provider into a developer-focused cloud platform for AI. Akamai’s strategy centers on low-latency, distributed computing, combini...

Mar 24

Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Brendan Burns discusses how AI is reshaping Kubernetes and modern infrastructure. Originally designed for stateless applications, Kubernetes is evolving to su...