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AI Should Solve the Problem, Not Deflect the Customer
October 6, 2026 · 31 minCorey 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 the goal. They dig into the evolution of Amazon Connect…
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Open Source and the Future of Databases with German Eichberger
September 24, 2026 · 24 minWhat 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 dig into DocumentDB, why it’s built on PostgreSQL, and the…
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The Invisible Network Powering AWS with Matt Rehder
September 10, 2026 · 37 minAWS 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 toward flatter networks, the advantages of building custom…
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AI Can Do the Work, But Should It? with Adam Larsen
August 27, 2026 · 30 minOn 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 should actually look like in K-12 education. They discuss using…
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When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson
June 25, 2026 · 30 minAI-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 contributions has improved dramatically in just the last few…
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The Appalachian Cloud Trail: Hiking, Cloud Economics, and Finding Perspective
June 11, 2026 · 33 minWhat 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 the trail, including exploding sleeping pads, heroic shuttle…
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Coding Agents, Chaos, and the Future of Dev Work with Dexter Horthy
May 28, 2026 · 33 minIn 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 coding agents. From the obsession with “just throwing more…
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The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek
May 14, 2026 · 31 minIn 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 operational pain, David shares how AWS’s new DevOps Agent is…
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Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas
April 30, 2026 · 29 minAI 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 “B Dougie” Douglas to explore building telemetry for AI…
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The Power of Saying No: Growing by Narrowing Your Focus with Corey Quinn
April 16, 2026 · 29 minWhat 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 about specialization, scaling service businesses, and the power…
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Build vs Buy: The Hidden Costs of “Just Building It” with Ahmed Bebars
April 2, 2026 · 43 minJust 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 decisions, Kubernetes complexity, and the constant trade-off…
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FinOps, AI, and the Cost of Cloud Chaos with J.R. Storment
March 19, 2026 · 48 minWhat 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 more about psychology, the real difference between FinOps for AI…