Cloud Out Loud Podcast

We talk about cloud computing, what's new, what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. We focus on the why and how of the cloud, why it's revolutionary, and how to adapt yourself or your organization to be part of this revolution.We cover Google Cloud and AWS pretty exclusively in the beginning, and hope to add Azure in our copious free time.

Cloud Out Loud Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Jon and Logan Gallagher, with 38 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jon and Logan Gallagher hosts Cloud Out Loud Podcast, a technology show with 38 episodes published.

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  Episode #37

  Open Source Reality Check

  Dec 17, 202538 minS1

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>The dream of open source is freedom, speed, and shared progress—but the reality gets messy when it meets cloud-scale business and security. We explore how Docker kickstarted containers while Google’s Kubernetes turned them into an operational standard, and why that split shaped everything from engineering culture to company strategy. From there, we compare the cloud giants’ philosophies: Google’s foundation-first approach, Microsoft’s transformation from anti-OSS to stewarding GitHub and popularizing VS Code, and Amazon’s more transactional stance that sparked high-profile forks.<br/><br/>The heart of the story is tension betw...

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  Episode 36 - Open Source From Hackers to Kubernetes: How Open Source Evolved

  Oct 1, 202543 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Ever wonder how free software ended up running the world’s biggest clouds? We pull on a thread that starts with the hacker ethos—access, transparency, community—and follows it through OSCON memories, Docker’s breakout moment, and the quiet power shift that came with Kubernetes. From early research culture to the realities of running production systems, we map how open source moved from ideal to infrastructure and why today’s cloud thrives on community-built code.<br/><br/>We look at why Docker’s elegant packaging changed developer workflows but didn’t solve the hardest pr...

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  Episode 35: AI Hype vs. Reality: Rethinking Build vs. Buy

  Aug 14, 202533 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode, Jon and Logan  explore whether generative AI fundamentally changes the build versus buy decision for businesses considering software solutions. They analyze recent claims about AI-powered cost savings and examine the underlying principles that should guide technology decisions.<br/><br/></p>How Logan is using  AI in his common tasks Looking at recent claims from companies like Klarna about replacing SaaS with AI-built softwareRevisiting the fundamental truth that Organizations must understand their core expertise when making build vs buy decisions"Vibe coding" with AI creates maintenance problems as context for coding dec...

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  Episode 34 - AI Still Needs Humans in the Loop

  Mar 19, 202526 minS1

  <p>Send us a text</p><p><br/><br/>When identical prompts yield different outputs and a request for "a cat running across the screen" generates four cylinders and a bobbing balloon, the non-deterministic nature of generative AI becomes impossible to ignore. Despite the power of these sophisticated models, we discovered that creating consistent, high-quality results demanded substantial human intervention – not less. Our journey moved from refining prompts to building extensive code example libraries, requiring the very software engineering expertise these systems supposedly reduce.<br/><br/>This experience directly contradicts the popular "vibe programming" approach where developers mindlessly shuttle between AI...

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  Episode 33 - Creating an Animation Application using AI

  Mar 5, 202540 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>In this episode we try out what we've speculated AI, particularly GenAI is good for: expanding the capabilities of engineers as they create new applications.</p><p>This application uses Google's Cloud Run  and Google Cloud Storage to get user's specification of an animation, create the animation, then store and play the animation.</p><p>This the link to the Github repo for the application.<br/><br/>The AI framework for the application is Google's Gemini and the program generates the animation is Blender. The demo is programmed in Python and uses the L...

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