Episodes

  • TCG078: The Pope’s AI Encyclical: Navigating AI with Values

    TCG078: The Pope’s AI Encyclical: Navigating AI with Values
    Jun 17 2026
    The Pope issued a recent encyclical on AI, urging developers to safeguard human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. Eyvonne and William explore this encyclical, moving beyond the headlines to the core message regarding human dignity. They examine how the document provides a values-based framework for evaluating technology and the need for a balanced... Read more »
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    51 mins
  • TCG077: News Roundtable: Data Center Backlash and the AI Chip War

    TCG077: News Roundtable: Data Center Backlash and the AI Chip War
    Jun 3 2026
    William and Eyvonne discuss recent tech news, including the growing political and community opposition to AI data centers driven by fears over power and water usage. They also analyze the “AI Chip War” as hyperscalers such as AWS and Google invest in specialized silicon for training and inference. Episode Links: Amid backlash, O’Leary Digital CEO... Read more »
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    45 mins
  • TCG076: Packet Pushers Assemble! Bridging the Telemetry Divide

    TCG076: Packet Pushers Assemble! Bridging the Telemetry Divide
    May 20 2026
    Today our Packet Pushers team assembles to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state from devices across different... Read more »
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    56 mins
  • TCG075: Say the Thing: How the Network Automation Conference Circuit Shaped One SP Operator’s Voice

    TCG075: Say the Thing: How the Network Automation Conference Circuit Shaped One SP Operator’s Voice
    May 6 2026
    Eyvonne and William sit down with Joseph Nicholson, a Network Operations Engineer with NTT DATA, to share how public speaking transformed his career and technical experience. Joseph went from a terrifying ten minute lightning talk at AutoCon 2 to presenting 45-minute sessions at conferences like NANOG. Together they discuss how conversations in conference halls influenced... Read more »
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    49 mins
  • TCG074: From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure

    TCG074: From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure
    Apr 22 2026
    Eyvonne Sharp and William Collins speak with Sif Baksh, Principal Solutions Architect at Tines, to discuss the power of automation. Sif shares some personal stories of how he has been able to use automation to innovate and modernize networking operations. They also discuss the importance of learning AI and using it as a tool, how... Read more »
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    45 mins
  • TCG073: From Vibes to Governed: What Building a Real Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development

    TCG073: From Vibes to Governed: What Building a Real Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development
    Apr 8 2026
    Vibe coding: give AI a description of what you want, the model writes the code, you ship it, and then you hope for the best. It works great for side projects, but it can fall apart the moment you point an AI agent at production infrastructure. Today, William and Eyvonne sit down with John Capobianco,... Read more »
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    58 mins
  • TCG072: AI and the Automation Engineer – When Your Scripts Start Writing Themselves

    TCG072: AI and the Automation Engineer – When Your Scripts Start Writing Themselves
    Mar 25 2026
    William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp invite Skylar Sands, Senior Automation Engineer at World Wide Technology, to discuss what it means to integrate AI into the daily workflow in a meaningful way. Together they break down the shift in the automation engineer’s role now that AI can instantly generate the “toolkit” of Python, Ansible, and Bash,... Read more »
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    50 mins
  • TCG071: Cloud Cloning and Portability – Why Multi-Cloud Freedom Still Requires Translation (Sponsored)

    TCG071: Cloud Cloning and Portability – Why Multi-Cloud Freedom Still Requires Translation (Sponsored)
    Mar 18 2026
    In this sponsored episode, FluidCloud co-founders Sharad Kumar and Harshit Omar sit down with William and Eyvonne to discuss how FluidCloud tackles multi-cloud portability. They detail how FluidCloud acts as a cloning platform that scans an existing cloud or VMware environment, extracts complex infrastructure configurations (including compute and storage, as well as firewall rules and... Read more »
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    35 mins