Darin Pope

DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave Ops teams resist every tech wave for rational reasons -- and that rationality is exactly what puts them two years behind.

DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-operations-teams-resist-every-technology-wave-340/

DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet) Anthony Eden runs global DNS infrastructure with 20 people and zero VC money. We talk domain security, AI tools, and why vibe coding doesn't belong.

DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet)

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/dns-is-old-tech-and-that-s-why-it-still-runs-the-internet-339/

DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything AI coding tools speed up developers but features don't ship faster. The bottleneck just moves downstream to QA, security, and ops.

DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-assembly-line-problem-why-adding-ai-to-one-step-breaks-everything-338/

DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan explains why physical AI demands nanosecond-precision time series data and how open source business models are evolving.

DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/nanoseconds-matter-influxdb-and-the-future-of-real-time-data-337/

DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore Explore how AI is reshaping hiring as employees bring their own AI teams to work, transforming compensation, governance, and employment law.

DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-top-talent-won-t-work-for-you-anymore-336/

DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot Coroot co-founder Peter Zaitsev explains how eBPF-powered self-hosted observability delivers answers without the cloud markup or dashboard-building hassle.

DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/stop-building-dashboards-and-start-getting-answers-with-coroot-335/

DOP 334: If Code Is the Easy Part, What Should Developers Actually Be Doing? Discover why coding was never the hardest part of software development and how AI is transforming the skills developers need to thrive.

DOP 334: If Code Is the Easy Part, What Should Developers Actually Be Doing?

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/if-code-is-the-easy-part-what-should-developers-actually-be-doing-334/

DOP 333: The Hidden Problems Behind Every Data Pipeline Dagster CEO Pete Hunt discusses scaling data infrastructure, trust and safety at Twitter, and why most AI projects fail despite technical sophistication.

DOP 333: The Hidden Problems Behind Every Data Pipeline

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-hidden-problems-behind-every-data-pipeline-333/

DOP 332: 2026 - The Year of Discovery AI in DevOps 2026: Why operations teams resist AI, the future of platform engineering with agents, and why writing code may be the least valuable skill.

DOP 332: 2026 - The Year of Discovery

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/2026-the-year-of-discovery-332/

DOP 331: Looking Back on Our 2025 Predictions Review 2025 tech predictions vs. reality: why agentic AI dominated the year instead of model improvements, and what's next for AI-powered development tools.

DOP 331: Looking Back on Our 2025 Predictions

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/looking-back-on-our-2025-predictions-331/

DOP 330: Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else) In this short episode, Darin and Viktor reflect on the holiday season.

DOP 330: Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else)

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/merry-christmas-you-should-probably-be-doing-something-else-330/

DOP 329: Vibe Coding and The Technical Debt Time Bomb Explore vibe coding limits vs professional development, technical debt in the AI era, and evolving pair programming with AI agents.

DOP 329: Vibe Coding and the Technical Debt Time Bomb

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/vibe-coding-and-the-technical-debt-time-bomb-329/

DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions Learn when to build vs buy technology solutions, avoid not-invented-here syndrome, and balance custom development with vendor solutions.

DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-real-cost-of-build-versus-buy-decisions-328/

DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue Learn why autonomous AI agents aren't ready for production and how to prevent AI systems from going rogue in your infrastructure.

DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/when-ai-tools-go-rogue-327/

DOP 326: Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead How Dapr's runtime APIs solve microservices complexity with messaging, state management, and service discovery for cloud portability.

DOP 326: Stop Reinventing the Wheel - Use Dapr Instead

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/stop-reinventing-the-wheel-use-dapr-instead-326/

DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review Explore KubeCon 2025 NA’s biggest takeaways on Ingress NGINX deprecation, AI maturation, maintainer burnout, and the future of cloud native ecosystems.

DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/kubecon-north-america-2025-review-325/

DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling with Zesty Kubernetes 1.33 brings in-place pod resizing for better AI workload management and auto-scaling optimization in cloud vs data center deployments.

DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling With Zesty

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/kubernetes-resource-right-sizing-and-scaling-with-zesty-324/

DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding Exploring vibe coding security risks and when AI-assisted development works vs fails in production environments.

DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-security-nightmare-of-vibe-coding-323/

DOP 322: How to Build Apps That Never Go Down Even When Servers Die Learn how peer-to-peer technology enables apps with data sovereignty and zero infrastructure costs from Mathias Buus Madsen.

DOP 322: How to Build Apps That Never Go Down Even When Servers Die

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/how-to-build-apps-that-never-go-down-even-when-servers-die-322/

DOP 321: Model Context Protocol for Standardizing AI Tool Integration Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms AI agents from generic tools into context-aware collaborators that understand your workflows.

DOP 321: Model Context Protocol for Standardizing AI Tool Integration

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/model-context-protocol-for-standardizing-ai-tool-integration-321/

DOP 320: Why Dashboards Alone Are Not Enough for Incident Response Explore why dashboards alone are not enough for incident response and learn how IT teams can bridge the gap between data and effective action.

DOP 320: Why Dashboards Alone Are Not Enough for Incident Response

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-dashboards-alone-are-not-enough-for-incident-response-320/

DOP 319: AI-Powered Infrastructure: Beyond Hype to Reality DevOps Paradox is a weekly podcast co-hosted by Darin Pope and Viktor Farcic about all things DevOps.

DOP 319: AI-Powered Infrastructure: Beyond Hype to Reality

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/ai-powered-infrastructure-beyond-hype-to-reality-319/

DOP 318: WireMock and the Changing Landscape of API Development Tools Explore how AI is transforming API development with WireMock creator Tom Akehurst, covering network mocking and AI agent integration.

DOP 318: WireMock and the Changing Landscape of API Development Tools

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/wiremock-and-the-changing-landscape-of-api-development-tools-318/

DOP 317: The Human Cost of AI Automation in DevOps Learn why AI will disrupt multiple professions simultaneously and strategies for thriving in the shift from coding to oversight roles.

DOP 317: The Human Cost of AI Automation in DevOps

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-human-cost-of-ai-automation-in-devops-317/

DOP 316: Bringing Back the Original Internet Vision Using Tailscale Explore the evolution of internet connectivity and how modern networking solutions are reshaping digital security and trust in our connected world.

DOP 316: Bringing Back the Original Internet Vision Using Tailscale

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/bringing-back-the-original-internet-vision-using-tailscale-316/

DOP 315: Why Good Developers Spend More Time Designing Than Coding Discover why design trumps coding in modern software development. Learn how AI tools are shifting developer roles from writing code to project design.

DOP 315: Why Good Developers Spend More Time Designing Than Coding

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-good-developers-spend-more-time-designing-than-coding-315/

DOP 314: Building Your Speaking Career From Meetups to Main Stage Learn how to build a speaking career from meetups to conferences with tips on overcoming stage fright and improving public speaking skills for developers.

DOP 314: Building Your Speaking Career From Meetups to Main Stage

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/building-your-speaking-career-from-meetups-to-main-stage-314/

DOP 313: Harnessing AI for Smarter Development Darin compares Cursor and Claude Code for improving Jenkins plugins, finding both effective for refactoring and enhancements.

DOP 313: Harnessing AI for Smarter Development

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/harnessing-ai-for-smarter-development-313/

DOP 312: Transitioning From VMWare to KubeVirt Strategic complexities of migrating from VMware to platforms like KubeVirt and OpenStack require thorough research.

DOP 312: Transitioning From VMWare to KubeVirt

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/transitioning-from-vmware-to-kubevirt-312/

DOP 311: Harnessing AI for Accelerated Project Development Tools like Claude Code and Taskmaster have significantly reduced the time required for project development, bringing it down from a month to just a few days.

DOP 311: Harnessing AI for Accelerated Project Development

https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/harnessing-ai-for-accelerated-project-development-311/