Cloud Unplugged

By Jon Shanks, Lewis Marshall

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Episodes: 63

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Each week, Jon Shanks, CEO of cloud-native consultancy and product business Appvia, and tech evangelist Salman Iqbal, analyse the biggest news stories that week, that are shaping Cloud, Data and AI. Alongside their insight, they invite frontline leaders, Chief Technology Officers and engineering heads from established, cloud-powered organisations to share candid lessons from running real-world workloads at scale. Together, they take the headlines and get to the facts, helping you keep track of the fast-paced Cloud market. Expect straight-talking conversation, sharp analysis as they explore how emerging technology reshapes business and society. Tune in each week to stay a step ahead of the future of tech.

Episode Date
Nobody is coming to protect you
Sep 29, 2026
The Skills That Will Still Matter When AI Does Everything Else
Sep 02, 2026
OpenAI's AI Hacked Hugging Face. Now Apple Is Suing Them Too.
Aug 12, 2026
Shadow AI Is Real. Roll Out AI Safely Before It Bites You.
Jul 28, 2026
Should AI Have Ethics?
Jul 08, 2026
AI Is Now Making Your MacBook More Expensive
Jul 02, 2026
Elon Just Bought the Tool Every Developer Uses
Jun 23, 2026
The Federal Reserve Is Scared of AI. Should You Be?
Jun 16, 2026
Meta's AI Handed Over Obama's Instagram to a Stranger. For Free.
Jun 08, 2026
GitHub Got Hacked, $500 Million Spent on AI in a Month & Bots Built Their Own Religion Cloud Unplugged
Jun 08, 2026
50 Driverless Taxis, One Dead End
Jun 02, 2026
EU Cloud Wars, AI Copyright laws and Chaos
May 18, 2026
Just blame it on Claude!!!
May 01, 2026
Pay up or get hacked!
Apr 29, 2026
AI Moves Off the Cloud, Google Breaks the Internet, Google-Wiz Deal Under Fire
Jun 27, 2025
UK’s £1B AI Push, China’s 631GB Data Leak, and Robotic Exoskeletons
Jun 15, 2025
From AI Labs to Warzones: Proteins, Drones & Dog Tech
Jun 05, 2025
Design Meets AI: OpenAI and Jony Ives, VEO AI film creation, and how to predict the weather with M.S
May 28, 2025
AI Infrastructure Boom: CoreWeave's IPO, AWS Transform, and Quantum Computings Next Leap
May 22, 2025
Saudi’s AI Empire, Nvidia’s Robot Plans, and talking Dolphins
May 15, 2025
Big Retail Cyber Attack: Amazon’s AI Offensive & the Google AI Opt‑Out Illusion
May 07, 2025
Europe in the Dark: Cyber-attack Suspicions, Meta’s New AI, Qwen 3 & Earths rotation changes
May 01, 2025
Google AI Agentspace Workflows, Oracle Cloud Breach and OpenAI’s New Features
Apr 27, 2025
CTO/Co-founder Thomas Boltze: Why Your Engineering Team is Slow - and How to Fix It | Episode 40
Apr 16, 2025
AI Monopoly Madness: Microsoft’s Moves and the Future of ChatGPT! | Episode 39
Aug 07, 2024
CIO of Sportradar, Ian Poland: How to manage your cloud spend well, career journey to CIO | Episode 38
Jun 26, 2024
GitOps: The gaps it has and what can be done about it! | Episode 37
Jun 12, 2024
Open Source: Tesla car takeovers and rogue washing machines with Lewis Marshall and Mark Hughes Open Source: Tesla car takeovers and rogue washing machines
May 30, 2024
Head of Engineering of Moonpig, Richard Pearson: Career Progression, Leadership and Enablement teams | Episode 35
May 15, 2024
Product vs. Program, what's the difference and do you really need them? | Episode 34
Dec 13, 2023
The importance of consistency in cloud infrastructure: Cloud Landing Zones | Episode 33
Nov 29, 2023
Rafe Colburn, Depop (owned by Etsy). Pitfalls of measuring engineering productivity | Episode 32
Nov 15, 2023
Dean Bryen, CTO of Cloud UBS maintaining innovation with new technologies | Episode 31
Nov 01, 2023
Idriss Selhoum, Marks & Spencer's cloud adoption journey | Episode 30
Oct 18, 2023
David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals & Ruby on Rails. Rent vs buy: do cloud providers really save companies money? | Episode 29
Oct 04, 2023
Matthew Skelton, Team Topologies, the complexities of managing team in the modern workplace | Episode 28
Sep 20, 2023
What is Culture in the Modern Workplace? | Episode 27
Sep 06, 2023
Viktor Farcic, Upbound. Platform Engineering, Role Evolution and Optimisation | Episode 26
Aug 23, 2023
Product Manager vs. Product Owner, is there a difference and do you need one? | Episode 25
Aug 09, 2023
Nicholas Chang & Steve Nicholl, Kainos. Navigating Cloud Adoption | Episode 24
Jul 27, 2023
Chris Stura, PwC UK. Platform Engineering & Business Success | Episode 23
Jul 12, 2023
Colin Humphreys, Syntasso. Anti-Patterns Exposed: Building Platforms the Right Way | Episode 22
Jun 28, 2023
Haseeb Budhani, Rafay Systems. Bridging the Gap: Development and Developer Experience | Episode 21
Jun 14, 2023
Richard Simon, T-Systems. Every Cloud Migration Has a Silver Lining | Episode 20
May 31, 2023
Charles Humble, Container Solutions. Technical Writing in the Cloud Era | Episode 19
May 17, 2023
Kasper von Grünberg, Humanitec. What it Means to be a Platform Engineer | Episode 18
May 03, 2023
Optimal Platform Engineering Team Sizes | Episode 17
Apr 19, 2023
Enabling Developer Self-Service with Existing Technologies | Episode 16
Apr 05, 2023
The State of DevOps Report 2023 | Episode 15
Mar 22, 2023
Teams and Talent: Unlocking Team Potential with OKRs | Episode 14
Mar 15, 2023
Cloud Platform Engineering: Saving Time, Money and Effort | Episode 13
Mar 08, 2023
Single or Multi-Tenant Clusters: Security | Episode 12
Mar 01, 2023
Single or Multi-Tenant Clusters: When and Why | Episode 11
Feb 22, 2023
Cloud Strategy: What Is It and Why You Need One? | Episode 10
Feb 15, 2023
The importance of DevExp for larger developer teams | Episode 9
Feb 08, 2023
Day 0, 1 & 2. Decision making in cloud deployment | Episode 8
Feb 01, 2023
Bryan Ross, VMware Tanzu. What makes a Successful Platform Team? | Episode 7
Jan 25, 2023
Richard Smith, Codification.io. Common Cloud Struggles with DevOps Teams | Episode 6
Dec 14, 2022
Build vs. Buy, Cloud Platforms | Episode 5
Oct 26, 2022
The Spotify Model & Cloud | Episode 4
Oct 19, 2022
Is DevOps Still a Thing? | Episode 3
Oct 12, 2022
Avoiding the Cloud Money Trap | Episode 2
Oct 05, 2022
Authentication & Authorisation: Best Practices in the Cloud | Episode 1
Sep 28, 2022