Podcast profile
Screaming in the Cloud
By Corey Quinn
Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
Latest episode
When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson
30 min
- Cadence
- Biweekly
- Typical length
- 33 min
- Latest release
- Jun 25, 2026
- Language
- EN-US
Topics
Infrastructure & Operations
Cloud, networks, data platforms, reliability, and technical operations.
Engineering Practice
Building, testing, shipping, and operating technical systems.
Formats
Interview
A host-led conversation with one or more guests.
Audience level
Advanced
Consistently technical, professional, or specialist in depth.
People behind the show
Current hosts
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Latest episodes
Screaming in the Cloud30 min
When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson
AI-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 months. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn and Madelyn discus
Screaming in the Cloud33 min
The Appalachian Cloud Trail: Hiking, Cloud Economics, and Finding Perspective
What 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 drivers, lost phones, and the unique community that makes long-distance hiking spe
Screaming in the Cloud33 min
Coding Agents, Chaos, and the Future of Dev Work with Dexter Horthy
In 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 tokens at the problem” to the reality of building scalable AI workflows, Dexter shares
Screaming in the Cloud31 min
The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek
In 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 pushing automation to a whole new level, autonomously diagnosing incidents, sugges
Screaming in the Cloud29 min
Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas
AI 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 agents, open-source infrastructure, token economics, and what it takes to create devel
Screaming in the Cloud29 min
The Power of Saying No: Growing by Narrowing Your Focus with Corey Quinn
What 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 of saying no. From growing a digital agency from $20M to $200M to escaping founder
Screaming in the Cloud43 min
Build vs Buy: The Hidden Costs of “Just Building It” with Ahmed Bebars
Just 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 between building your own solutions and buying existing ones. From home labs to en
Screaming in the Cloud48 min
FinOps, AI, and the Cost of Cloud Chaos with J.R. Storment
What 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 vs. AI for FinOps, and why automation still struggles with edge cases (despite a
Screaming in the Cloud39 min
Everything Is a Graph (Even Your Dad Jokes) with Roi Lipman
In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, host Corey Quinn sits down with Roi Lipman, CTO and co-founder of Falco DB, to unpack the evolving role of graph databases in a world overflowing with data stores. Roi shares his journey from building RedisGraph at Redis to spinning it out into Falco DB, along with his endurin
Screaming in the Cloud27 min
AI, Authenticity, and the Future of Podcasting with Chris Hill
This week on Screaming in the Cloud, Corey sits down with Chris Hill, CEO of Humble Pod, to talk about the messy, nuanced reality of AI in media. From secretly cloning Corey’s voice for an ad using ElevenLabs (and almost getting away with it) to the growing tension between polished production and authentic content, the
Screaming in the Cloud29 min
Coding Agents and the Inevitable AI Bubble with Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson, partner at VC firm Scale, talks about why coding agents changed software forever and why the AI bubble can't be avoided. Eric worked on Spot Instances at AWS and data products at Google before becoming a VC. He explains how companies can still compete against Anthropic and OpenAI by staying laser-focused
Screaming in the Cloud33 min
Fixing Shadow AI and Surviving re:Invent with Chase Douglas
Chase Douglas, CEO at Archodex, talks about AI security problems and why re:Invent has become a nightmare. Chase helps companies capture every AI interaction so they don't get in trouble with compliance. Corey and Chase discuss Shadow AI, why Corey runs Claude Code in an account called “Superfund,” and how re:Invent pu
Screaming in the Cloud30 min
Building Software While Keeping Humans in Charge
Alyss Noland, who works on Cloud Dev Ecosystem at Nvidia, is back on the show to talk about building software with AI when you're not a real developer. Alyss runs a program that gives AI startups access to Nvidia GPUs and uses AI tools herself to build production software at Nvidia. Corey and Alyss discuss using AI to
Screaming in the Cloud41 min
How Homebrew Became Mac's Package Manager with Mike McQuaid
Mike McQuaid, Project Leader of Homebrew, joins Corey Quinn to share how a package manager conceived in a London pub became essential for 10 million Mac users. Homebrew lets you install software with one command instead of downloading files and clicking through installers, maintained by just 30 people who each get $300
Screaming in the Cloud31 min
Is It Broken Everywhere or Just for Me with Omri Sass
When your website stops working at 3 AM, you need to answer one question fast: Is it my code or is a big cloud provider having problems? Omri Sass from Datadog explains updog.ai, a tool that monitors whether major services like AWS, CloudFlare, and others are actually working. Instead of asking people to report problem
Screaming in the Cloud32 min
Solving the 20-Year S3 File System Problem with Hunter Leath
Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs need hard drives, but cloud storage doesn't work like hard drives—a problem that's existed for 20 years. Now Hunter's building Archil, which pu
Screaming in the Cloud36 min
Building Systems That Work Even When Everything Breaks with Ben Hartshorne
When AWS has a major outage, what actually happens behind the scenes? Ben Hartshorne, a principal engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey Quinn to discuss a recent AWS outage and how they kept customer data safe even when their systems couldn't fully work. Ben explains why building services that expect things to break is th
Screaming in the Cloud34 min
Engineering Around Extreme S3 Scale with R. Tyler Croy
R. Tyler Croy, a principal engineer at Scribd, joins Corey Quinn to explain what happens when simple tasks cost $100,000. Checking if files are damaged? $100K. Using newer S3 tools? Way too expensive. Normal solutions don't work anymore. Tyler shares how with this much data, you can't just throw money at the problem, b
Screaming in the Cloud44 min
Avery Pennarun on Tailscale's Evolution: From Mesh VPN to AI Security Gateway
Corey Quinn sits down with Avery Pennarun, co-founder and CEO of Tailscale, for a deep dive into how the company is reinventing networking for the modern era. From finally making VPNs behave the way they should to tackling AI security with zero-click authentication, Avery shares candid insights on building infrastructu
Screaming in the Cloud31 min
How Grokability Built a Profitable Open Source Business with Jeremy Price
Most open source companies do the same thing. They take investor money, lock their best features behind paywalls, sell the company, and disappoint everyone. Grokability did something different. Jeremy Price, VP of Technology at Grokability talks with Corey Quinn about how they built a business that makes enough money w
Screaming in the Cloud41 min
The AI Productivity Gap with Keith Townsend
Corey Quinn reconnects with Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor, for a candid conversation about the massive gap between AI hype and enterprise reality. Keith shares why a biopharma company gave Microsoft Copilot a hard no, and why AI has genuinely 10x’d his personal productivity while Fortune 500 companies trea
Screaming in the Cloud36 min
AI Agents, Enterprise Risk, and the Future of Recovery: Rubrik’s Vision with Dev Rishi
In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Rubrik’s GM of AI, Dev Rishi, to unpack the real story behind enterprise AI adoption, the rise of agentic systems, and why most organizations are still stuck in read-only mode. Dev breaks down how Rubrik’s Agent Rewind brings safety, observability, a
Screaming in the Cloud41 min
From Code to Cash: How André Arko Builds Better Tools and Gets Paid for Open Source
André Arko, CEO of Spinel Cooperative and longtime Bundler maintainer, joins Corey Quinn to introduce RV, a new Ruby tool that installs Ruby in one second instead of 10-40 minutes by using precompiled binaries. Inspired by Python's UV, RV aims to simplify Ruby dependency management without the complexity of older tools
Screaming in the Cloud34 min
Cyber Resilience Beyond Prevention with Anneka Gupta
When attackers are smart enough to hit your backups, recovery becomes your best defense. Rubrik’s Chief Product Officer, Anneka Gupta, joins host Corey Quinn to break down what true cyber resilience looks like in today’s multi-cloud world. From AI-driven recovery to surviving ransomware with your data (and reputation)
Screaming in the Cloud40 min
Cloud Repatriation: Because Conspiracy Theories Are Cheaper with Deana Solis
Deana Solis, 2022 FinOps Foundation Evangelist of the Year, joins Corey Quinn to discuss her winding career path from electrical engineering to healthcare IT to FinOps. She shares why certifications are "largely performative," warns that AI can turn your AWS bill into "a telephone number," and explains why NAT Gateway