Techstrong TV - February 25, 2026
Techstrong TV hosted Darren Williams, founder and CEO of Blackfog, to discuss the company’s origin, its endpoint‑focused anti‑exfiltration technology, and the firm’s annual State of Ransomware 2025 report ahead of RSA. Williams explained that traditional data‑loss‑prevention tools falter because they sit at the network edge and require costly manual classification. Blackfog instead runs AI‑driven packet‑layer analysis directly on the endpoint, auto‑classifying data and blocking unauthorized flows without sending raw payloads to the cloud. He cited a 47 % surge in ransomware incidents in 2025, noting a shift toward sector‑specific campaigns—manufacturing, retail (e.g., Marks & Spencer) and automotive (Land Rover). Williams also recalled a professor’s comment that his talent lay in computer science, a turning point that led to multiple successful exits before founding Blackfog. The interview underscores a growing market for on‑device data protection as AI lowers both defensive and offensive barriers. Enterprises that adopt endpoint‑only solutions can reduce attack surface, meet emerging privacy regulations, and better withstand ransomware extortion.
CI/CD Migration with AI Is Where the Money Is
Organizations are wrestling with a tangled web of legacy CI/CD tools—often ninety or more—while striving to shift to modern platforms such as Harness or GitHub Actions. The speaker highlights that AI‑driven migration tools can read existing pipelines and automatically generate...
CNCF On-Demand: Ingress-Nginx Is Retiring, NGINX Is Not
During a recent CNCF On‑Demand session, the community clarified that the ingress‑nginx project is being retired, not the broader NGINX ecosystem. While the open‑source ingress‑nginx controller will be archived, commercial and CNCF‑backed offerings such as the NGINX Ingress Controller and...
Why Most Migrations Fail: The Untold Costs Impacting Platform Teams
The panel discussion tackled the persistent problem of platform migrations that fall short of expectations, emphasizing that modernization is not synonymous with a simple tool swap. Laura and AJ highlighted how enterprises chase a “silver‑bullet” migration narrative, only to encounter...
CNL: Crossplane 2.0 - AI-Driven Control Loops for Platform Engineering
Crossplane 2.0 introduces new primitives, notably the Operations resource, enabling AI‑driven control loops on Kubernetes. The platform demonstrates how large language models can power zero‑code, plain‑English controllers and an AI‑guided database control plane that makes conservative, auditable scaling actions based...
Best Practices Badge for Free/Libre and Open Source Software | OpenSSF Project Spotlight
David Wheeler, director of open‑source supply‑chain security at the OpenSSF, introduced the OpenSSF Best Practices Badge – a three‑tier (passing, silver, gold) certification that evaluates open‑source projects against a curated set of security‑focused criteria drawn from well‑run repositories. The badge...
What Is Clawdbot? | ClawdBot Agent | ClawdBot Explained | #Shorts | #Simplilearn
Clawdbot (also spelled ClawdBot) is an AI‑powered agent that automates routine tasks, streamlines workflows, and supports data‑driven decision‑making for businesses. The Simplilearn Shorts video breaks down how the agent operates, its core features, and the productivity gains it delivers. By...
AI Companies Don't Want You to Know This | VS Code + Continue
The video walks viewers through building a completely free, agentic integrated development environment (IDE) by pairing Visual Studio Code with the open‑source Continue.dev extension and locally hosted large language models (LLMs). Instead of relying on paid services such as GitHub...
Kubernetes 1.35 Features Explained: What’s New? (Timbernetes Release)
Kubernetes 1.35, dubbed “Timbernetes – The World Tree,” introduces five core enhancements that reshape workload orchestration. Native gang scheduling lets multiple pods be scheduled as a single unit, ideal for AI/ML training and batch jobs. In‑place pod resource updates and...
What OpenClaw Means for Platform Engineering: AI, GitOps & Agent Chaos
In the latest Weave Intelligence interview, Artem Lajko explains how OpenClaw is turning platform engineering into an AI‑driven GitOps engine. The discussion highlights the emergence of "vibe ops"—agentic coding that automates infrastructure changes at unprecedented speed. Lajko warns that AI‑defined...
The AI Divide Global Politics Agent Identity and Kubernetes | TSG Ep. 1026
The Techstrong Gang dissected a new AI innovation pledge signed by 88 nations that emphasizes market expansion while omitting enforceable safety standards. The hosts debated how this signals a fragmented global governance landscape and reshapes competitive dynamics among superpowers. They...
Techstrong TV - February 24, 2026
Techstrong TV’s February 24 2026 episode spotlighted the rapid convergence of AI and enterprise infrastructure. RUCKUS President Bart Giordano explained how AI‑driven applications and edge workloads are forcing a rewrite of wireless performance, reliability, and security. Microsoft’s Tiffany Treacy and Keith Kirkpatrick...
Simulate to Scale: How Realistic Simulations Power Reliable Agents in Production // Sachi Shah
At the Computer History Museum’s Coding Agents Conference, Sachi Shah presented how realistic, scalable simulations are essential for deploying reliable AI agents in production. She explained that simulations can mirror messy real‑world interactions—including multilingual dialogue, emotional states, background noise, and...
Yes, We Do Need MCP
The upcoming Coding Agents Conference will feature a deep‑dive into MCP, a stateful communication protocol designed for AI agents. Organizers argue that MCP’s built‑in statefulness differentiates it from gRPC and HTTP, enabling conversations to resume after interruptions. The talk will...
MLflow Leading Open Source
Databricks’ leaders Corey Zumar, Jules Damji, and Danny Chiao discussed the latest evolution of MLflow on the MLOps Podcast. The open‑source platform is being rebuilt to handle generative AI, agent workloads, and production‑grade governance, moving beyond its original data‑science‑only focus....
The Easiest Way To Host OpenClaw #Sponsored
The video promotes a sponsored solution for safely deploying OpenClaw, an open‑source AI agent that has attracted attention for its capabilities but also raises security concerns when run locally. By hosting the agent on a Hostinger virtual private server, users...
96% of Devs Don't Trust The AI Code || AI Didn't Kill QA - It Will Make It the...
The video reviews a SonarSource 2026 developer survey of 1,149 professionals, highlighting how AI tools are reshaping software development. Adoption has surged from 6% of code commits in 2023 to 42% in 2026, with a forecast of 65% by 2027,...
SECURE OpenClaw Setup Guide (ClawdBot Tutorial)
The video walks viewers through a hardened deployment of OpenClaw, an AI‑powered personal assistant, by recommending a virtual private server (VPS) rather than a local PC or generic cloud container. Hostinger’s one‑click Docker template is used to provision the service,...
How to Use CERT-MANAGER with Gateway API
The video walks through enabling TLS for services exposed via the Kubernetes Gateway API by leveraging cert-manager and Let’s Encrypt. It starts by provisioning a local Kind cluster, installing cert-manager through its Helm chart, and configuring a Cloudflare DNS record...
Setup Claude Code for FREE in 3 Simple Steps.
In the tutorial, Abhishek Veeramalla demonstrates how to run Claude Code for free by integrating it with Ollama and leveraging open‑source LLMs such as gpt‑oss, Qwen3‑Coder‑Next, and DeepSeek. The three‑step process eliminates the need for paid API keys, allowing developers...
Building an Orchestration Layer for Agentic Commerce at Loblaws
The talk introduced Alfred, Loblaws’ production‑grade orchestration layer designed to power agentic commerce across its massive retail ecosystem. Built on Google Kubernetes Engine with a FastAPI gateway, Alfred abstracts LLM providers, leverages LangChain‑style execution graphs, and connects to over fifty...
Agents as Search Engineers // Santoshkalyan Rayadhurgam
Santoshkalyan Rayadhurgam argues that the foundational assumption of classic retrieval—users supply fully formed intent—is collapsing, prompting a transition from deterministic, stateless pipelines to agentic, stateful search systems that reason across turns. He contrasts three generations: lexical BM25 pipelines, vector‑based RAG models,...
Techstrong TV - February 23, 2026
RSAC’s Innovation Sandbox Contest showcased over $18.1 billion in follow‑on funding, more than 100 acquisitions, and AI‑centric finalists, backed by a $5 million Crosspoint grant and expanded early‑stage programs. OpenTelemetry’s growing adoption is prompting the creation of unified observability warehouses that combine...
“I Haven’t Written a Single Line of Front-End Code in 3 Months”: Notion’s Prototype Playground
Notion’s design team, led by Brian Lovin, launched a shared Next.js prototype playground powered by Claude Code, allowing designers to build and iterate functional prototypes without writing front‑end code. The environment replaces isolated repos and static Figma mockups with collaborative,...
Platform Engineering ROI: Everything You Need to Know
The video tackles the perennial funding challenge faced by platform engineering teams: proving return on investment. It argues that ROI should be framed not as a simple cost‑vs‑savings equation, but as a measurable shift in developer behavior, delivery speed, and...
How AI Covered a Human’s Paternity Leave // Quinten Rosseel
During a head of data’s paternity leave, a logistics SaaS firm relied on an AI analyst named “Wobby” to handle incoming data questions. The agent answered roughly 60 % of queries, demonstrating that a well‑engineered AI can fill staffing gaps without...
IT Operations Are Not Ready for AI Agents: How to Respond Today
The Gartner ThinkCast preview warns that IT operations are ill‑prepared for the surge of AI agents and that CIOs are pressing for AI‑driven cost reductions. Speakers Autumn Stanish and Paul Delori cite that 52% of CIO priorities for 2026 are cost‑cutting,...
Cloud Computing Trends Explained | Cloud Isn’t Just Dropbox #simplilearn #shorts
The video demystifies cloud computing, showing it’s far more than consumer storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive. It highlights a $680 billion market, with 94% of enterprises already on cloud platforms, achieving 30‑40% reductions in IT core expenses. Amazon Web Services,...
How I'm Using AI Agents in 2026
In the video the creator walks through how to run multiple AI agents simultaneously in the cloud using Warp, a “genetic development environment” that blends a terminal UI with AI‑agent management. He shows that Warp’s new agents feature, backed by AWS,...
Rainbow Vomits and AI Guardrails - TWIQ Ep 124
This episode of "This Week in Quality" opened with a rapid‑fire recap of community milestones, from the surprise birthday shout‑out to Debbie to the launch of Epic Test Quest’s Wizzo, an AI‑powered testing assistant now embedded in Slack. The host...
The Future of Coding: AI Agents & the Next Tech Revolution // Ricky Doar
The conversation centers on Cursor, an AI‑driven coding assistant, and how developers are adapting to a new paradigm where large language models act as pair programmers or autonomous agents. Ricky Doar and his guest discuss the rapid adoption of Cursor...
MCP Security: The Exploit Playbook (And How to Stop Them)
The video spotlights the rapid rise of the MCP (Model‑Centered Programming) standard since its November 2024 launch and the stark security lag that now threatens its expanding ecosystem. While major platforms are racing to support MCP, developers are left scrambling to...
TanStack Start in 100 Seconds
TanStack Start is a developer‑experience‑focused full‑stack framework that bundles server‑side rendering, streaming, server functions, and bundling, created by Tanner Lindsay as a leaner alternative to Next.js. It leverages React’s ecosystem while addressing Next’s recent security and abstraction concerns. The framework ships...
Techstrong TV - February 20, 2026
TechStrongTV’s February 20 episode spotlights Kevin Green, co‑founder and chief marketing officer of Hapix, a startup building AI‑driven solutions for community banks and credit unions. Green explains that beyond product features, controlling the narrative around AI adoption is critical in a...
N8n Hostinger Setup 2026 - Step by Step
The video walks viewers through a step‑by‑step deployment of the n8n workflow automation platform on a Hostinger virtual private server, emphasizing a low‑cost, one‑click installation that becomes production‑ready by the end. Dan begins by urging users to sign up through an...
Spec Driven Workflow with Claude Code #4 - Implementing the Plan
Claude Code’s fourth tutorial walks through turning a detailed plan into working authentication components. The presenter switches from the default Sonic model to Opus 4.5, noting its superior instruction‑following ability, and enables extended thinking mode to let the model reason longer...
Silos Are Fantastic. Just Ask Kelsey Hightower.
The video features Kelsey Hightower arguing that silos, when mediated by APIs, are beneficial rather than harmful. He challenges the prevailing push for universal collaboration and self‑service across all layers. He explains that platform teams should provide stable, well‑defined contracts, allowing...
Techstrong TV - February 19, 2026
Datadog’s CISO Emilio Escobar urged security teams to adopt AI proactively, linking observability with threat detection ahead of RSA. Bill Mulligan highlighted eBPF’s rise as enterprises embed observability, networking, and security directly into the Linux kernel for lower latency and...
From Red Link to Root Cause in Seconds | Cisco Data Center Networking
Cisco’s new data‑center monitoring UI lets operators pinpoint a red‑link event and trace it to the exact hardware fault within seconds. The dashboard aggregates Ethernet interface metrics, CRC errors, power‑module temperatures, and GPU utilization, then layers job‑specific topology so users...
Do AI Agents Need to Be Intelligent to Do Their Job? | Shimmy Says Ep. 47
The episode questions whether AI agents must be truly intelligent or simply effective at completing tasks. It highlights the ongoing debate over AI’s “understanding” versus its role as a practical workflow engine in enterprises. Real‑world use cases—document drafting, ticket routing,...
Why Half of All Kubernetes Clusters Are About to Become Vulnerable | Kat Cosgrove & Tabitha Sable
The Kubernetes Steering Committee announced that the Ingress NGINX controller – a core ingress solution for roughly half of cloud‑native deployments – will be officially retired at the end of March, six weeks from the announcement. After that date the...
Fast & Asynchronous: Drift Your AI, Not Your GPU Bill // Artem Yushkovskiy
The talk introduced ASEA, an open‑source asynchronous‑actor framework designed to replace traditional batch pipelines for generative AI workloads. By decoupling each processing step into self‑hosted GPU actors that communicate via message queues, the team at a global food‑delivery platform eliminated...
Beyond the Gold Standard: Evaluating and Trusting Agents in the Wild // Sanjana Sharma
AI agents look impressive in demos, but production reliability hinges on context, evaluation, and trust. Sanjana Sharma argues enterprises must shift from model‑first to system‑first thinking, embedding explicit business rules, subject‑matter‑expert (SME) heuristics, and versioned context layers. The talk outlines three...
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Cloud Computing Full Course 2026 [FREE] | Cloud Computing Tutorial For Beginners | Simplilearn
Simplilearn offers a free 24-hour, end-to-end cloud computing course that walks beginners from fundamentals to advanced topics across AWS and Azure, including Docker, DevOps, real projects, certification guidance and interview prep. The program combines conceptual lessons with hands-on demos (EC2,...
This FREE Tool Can Help You Backup and Restore Anything at Enterprise Level.
Plakar is an open‑source backup solution aimed at DevOps engineers who need enterprise‑level data resilience. The video explains how traditional object storage like S3 lacks point‑in‑time recovery and built‑in encryption, leaving critical workloads exposed to accidental deletion, ransomware, or corruption. Plakar...
Spec Driven Workflow with Claude Code #3 - Using Plan Mode
The video demonstrates Claude Code’s Plan Mode, a read‑only workflow that generates a detailed implementation plan for new features before any code is written. By activating Plan Mode, Claude spawns a sub‑agent that scans the existing repository, gathers context, and...
TelcoCloud Engineering – Free Live Demo | Learn 5G Core, Kubernetes & NFV Hands-On | TelcoLearn
TelcoLearn unveiled an eight‑week “Telco Cloud Engineering” bootcamp starting February 21, aimed at telecom professionals and aspiring engineers. The weekend program, taught by veteran telecom expert Sanjakumar and researcher Arpit, promises hands‑on experience with Linux, Python, Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, and...
Techstrong TV - February 18, 2026
TechStrong TV featured Mike Manos, chief technology officer of Dun & Bradstreet, discussing how the 186‑year‑old firm is reinventing itself through cloud migration and artificial‑intelligence initiatives. Manos outlined a five‑year transformation that moved D&B from legacy data centers to a...
How to Build Reliable AI at Scale: Insights From Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani, working to bridge Google DeepMind research with product and developer teams, urges builders to move beyond one-off demos toward production-ready AI systems. He frames development on a spectrum from “wild west” solo experiments to enterprise-grade setups with quality...
Allen School Colloquium: Productively Programming Accelerated Computing Systems
Rohan, a Stanford PhD and NVIDIA researcher, outlined his work on making high-performance accelerated and distributed computing systems easier to program as hardware grows more heterogeneous and complex. He described a full‑stack approach: high‑level composable distributed libraries that present familiar...