This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586

Runner-up Titles

• Special Sauce
• A new monkey’s thing
• I am all for USB-C
• Did I like it
• It’s all water marked'
• That NPC did need to be there
• It's Pre-Watermarked
• We Need to Touch Grass More
• Send Us Your APIs

Rundown

• Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October
• AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences
  • Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
  • Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
• Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything
  • The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross
  • Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
  • How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
  • Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity

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• Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class
• Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market
• The shapeshifter's little brother
• Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
• Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat
• IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers
• The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything
• Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
• Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors
• Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study
• Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob
• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
• Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration
• OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence
• OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue
• OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh
• OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive
• Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say
• Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

Listener Feedback

• Milestone iOS App

Conferences

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This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585

Runner-up Titles

• Law of Unintended Consequences
• We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense
• Trillion-dollar open source company
• The Meta Manifesto
• I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point.
• Using AI to fight AI
• Put me as a strong maybe.

Rundown

• Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again
• Meta's Big AI Week
  • The Future is for Everyone
  • Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
  • Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI
  • Superintelligence is a dragon
  • Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
• The AI Money Machine
  • Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’
  • 48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit
  • Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth

Relevant to your Interests

• New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
• OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch
• OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
• A road trip through the data center debate
• A Top OpenAI Executive Steps Down
• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
• Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
• The next generation of MCP
• How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

Nonsense

• Buc-off

Sponsors

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Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50
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• Brandon: Furious on Hulu
• Matt:
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  • Reading Maps
  • Infrastructure Frontiers podcast
• Coté:
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  • Elgato Teleprompter
  • TelepromterPro+

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This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584

Runner-up Titles

• Duffle bag of leftovers
• 5Are you dead in this scenario?
• Bury me with my IKEA bags
• Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that
• AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog
• Take some money off the table
• No more great ideas

Rundown

• IKEA FRAKTA
• Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes
  • AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
  • His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
• Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B
  • Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
  • sell on story, or sell on revenue
• The Java Story | The Official Documentary

Relevant to your Interests

• Who's Writing Open Source Code?
• Satyress Robotics
• GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping
• BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
• An announcement from Superlogical
• An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request through its entire ~200ms life
• Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured
• Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation
• valock July 2026 Recap
• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
• npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations
• Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience
• Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
• Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
• Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
• Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt
• Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history
• Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off
• Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow
• Clouded Judgement 7.31.26 - AWS CapEx ROI

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• Brandon: Brooks GTS 25
• Matt: NearbyWiki
  • Reading Maps
• Coté: Descript Underlord

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This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583

Runner-up Titles

• “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
• I thought they were First World
• Steal your Alpha-tier
• Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
• Copy, paste, go.
• Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
• It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

Rundown

• AI IRL
  • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
  • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
• Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
• Google Cloud is killing it
• Skill vs. Agents
  • Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
  • Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

Relevant to your Interests

• Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
• Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform
• IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change
• Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million
• Google Cloud is killing it
• ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]
• 2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era
• Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter

Sponsors

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Conferences

• AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.
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• Matt: Hyperion
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This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582

Runner-up Titles

• Turn off my dog
• Dad Wisdom
• Amazon subscription and let it fly
• Dad box
• Talking about modernization
• Skin in the game
• The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”
• Business fortnight
• No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

Rundown

• Rewriting Bun in Rust
• OpenAI
  • OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up
  • OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
  • AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
  • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  • OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO
  • Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
  • Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
  • OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
• Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

Relevant to your Interests

• SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company
• Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence
• Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
• California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate
• Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined
• Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?
• Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
• Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI
• Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack
• IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks
• Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform
• Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses
• House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
• United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
• Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
• 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords
• 1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude
• forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents
• Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
• 'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software
• What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend
• You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
• China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance
• Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?
• AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:
• China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value
• OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
• AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
• Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?
• IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
• Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
• Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
• AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD
• Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years
• Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
• Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally
• Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion
• Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine

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Nonsense

• Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings
• United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
• Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
• House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Listener Feedback

• Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC
• Tim releases a font for developers whose close-up vision isn't what it used to be
• The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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• Coté: Wolf Hall books.

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Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581

Show Links

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• Free Trial
• Brex Case Study
• Signadot Documentation Overview

Contact Arjun Iyer

• LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer
• Twitter: @arjuniyer_

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Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580

Show Links:

• varlock.dev
• varlock on GitHub
• @env-spec Overview
• DMNO (corporate site)
• Varlock MCP Server (docs)
• howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce
• unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label
• Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp
• bumpy

Contact Phil Miller:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman
• Email: [email protected]
• Music: unsafeharbour.com

Contact Theo Ephraim:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim
• Website: theoephraim.com
• Twitter/X: @theozero
• Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social
• Email: [email protected]

General Contact:

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Varlock Community

• Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users
• GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests
• varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates
• Varlock on X
• Varlock on Bluesky

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Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.

This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579

Runner-up Titles

• Everything is Files
• It’s just about meetings
• Did you do the pre-meet?
• Meetings
• Judgement
• Let it ride
• If it’s hot, turn on the AC
• I don’t have time for a towel.
• Headless HEB

Rundown

• I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
• Fable is Back
  • White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
  • Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
  • OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
• AI News of the Month - June 2026
• AI is NOT killing jobs
  • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
  • AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
  • A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
  • The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
• Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
• OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
• SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
  • The PDF of the Slides

Relevant to your Interests

• The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code
• Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble
• SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out.
• News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO
• Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results
• The AI Compass
• T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware

Listener Feedback

• Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents

Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
  • 25 Free Tickets
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
• Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

SDT News & Community

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• Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram

This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578

Runner-up Titles

• Ready to podcast from a sailboat
• It’s just people fighting
• Calculator budget
• Ask Siri to do your homework
• Software Defined Consulting: SDC
• The Magic Platform
• AI Curious
• I watched ALLLLL the keynotes.
• I don’t know that, but I know that
• You gotta stay to vest
• Brandon, remember Cursor?
• Educated Hater

Rundown

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms
  • IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms 
  • What is an "AI Governance Platform?
• AI Consolidates Talent
  • Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits
  • OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
  • Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent

Relevant to your Interests

• Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo
• Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets
• Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP
• Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
• Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
• 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban …
• Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million
• Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
• Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
• Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas
• Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
• U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million
• OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
• Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
• Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Sponsors

• Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

Nonsense

• Wiz Ice Cream for CISOs
• IN THE WEIGHTS

Conferences

• WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
• Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
• WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
  • 25 Free Tickets
• DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
• DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
• DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
• VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
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This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577

Runner-up Titles

• Waited out the storm
• Maybe we should build some castles or something
• Years of lawsuits ahead of us
• The ultimate dream
• AI SEO
• I hope you’re paid by the hour
• Always be monitoring to me

Rundown

• Anthropic
  • How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
  • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
  • Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
• Cursor
  • Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
  • SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
• Vibe Coding
  • Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
  • Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
  • Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
• curl summer of bliss

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• Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
• Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
• VCs behaving badly
• Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther

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Nonsense

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• Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
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Conferences

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Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576

Show Links

• OpenObserve
• OpenObserve on GitHub
• Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post
• Launching OpenObserve
• OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo
• Download OpenObserve

Contact Prabhat Sharma

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Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.

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