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June 10, 2026
Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn
If you've ever heard code is an expression of free speech you have Cindy Cohn to thank. Her decades of work in courtrooms and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been keeping Open Source, open and private communications, private. We got to chat about her new book Privacy's Defender and take a look at the future by hearing stories from the past. Privacy's Defender book Cindy's SCaLE keynote
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May 14, 2026
Taking Down Prod with Eve
If you're a platform engineer you've had to exit vi at least once. Eve is stuck with it for the rest of her social media life. She's a Sr Platform Engineer and obviously knows a ton about Kubernetes and CI/CD. Enough to make you cry laughing. We got to chat with her about what it's like to be doing s̶y̶s̶a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶o̶p̶s̶ j̶e̶n̶k̶i̶n̶s̶ d̶e̶p̶l̶o̶y̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ platform engineering work in the age of AI and what people should stop doing. Eve's Instagram Eve's TikTok Chapters 00:00 Introductio
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April 24, 2026
Laying the Foundation with Joe Beda
Fork Around and Get Email Sponsor FAFOFM "Everyone is a beginner at one point." Even one of the creators of Kubernetes. If you're listening to this podcast then Joe has had an impact on what you do. He's worked on everything from Internet Explorer 6, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes. You can partially blame him for ActiveX and YAML. He's also one of the kindest people who understand the difference between going fast and going far. Don't forgot to check out the FAFOFM store .
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March 20, 2026
Training The future with Mark Russinovich
Sponsor FAFOFM Don't FAFO with cloud disaster recovery. Do it right with Arpio . Have a podcast you need help with? Reach out to HumblePod . Mark is the CTO of Azure and has decades of experience exploring the internals of systems. As a developer and person responsible for running massive AI infrastructure, Mark has a lot of insights and ideas. We talk about the the end of SaaS, training engineers, and a whole lot more on this episode. Zero Day Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for
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Feb. 25, 2026
Developing Measurements with Cat Hicks
SoCal Linux Expo - discount "FAFOF" -https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ Kubecon EU Amsterdam - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ Linuxfest North West - https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Newsletter - https://sub.fafo.fm/ Dr. Cat Hicks takes a different approach to traditional engineer productivity measurements. Instead of turning engineers into velocity numbers she takes a holistic approach to understanding why a person or team might be over or under performing. This ep
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