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The Cloud Gambit

Hosted by Packet Pushers · technology · EN · 33 episodes

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About this Podcast:

The Cloud Gambit Podcast unravels the state of cloud computing, markets, strategy, and emerging trends. Join William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp for valuable conversations with industry mavens that educate and empower listeners on the intricate field of innovation and opportunity.

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What is The Cloud Gambit about?

The Cloud Gambit Podcast unravels the state of cloud computing, markets, strategy, and emerging trends. Join William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp for valuable conversations with industry mavens that educate and empower listeners on the intricate field of innovation and opportunity.

Who hosts The Cloud Gambit?

The Cloud Gambit is hosted by Packet Pushers. The show has published 33 episodes to date.

What has The Cloud Gambit covered recently?

Recent episodes include "TCG086: Why Training AI to Have a Self Makes Governance Harder" (14 October 2026, 74 minutes), "TCG085: Enterprise Salescraft with Drew Meli" (30 September 2026, 55 minutes), and "TCG083: Superintelligence for Everyone: Who Actually Holds the Power?" (2 September 2026, 53 minutes).

How often does The Cloud Gambit publish?

The Cloud Gambit publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 33 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Cloud Gambit?

Booking probability for The Cloud Gambit is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Cloud Gambit requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Cloud Gambit's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch The Cloud Gambit?

The strongest fits for The Cloud Gambit are Cloud, Data & Web Hosting and IT Services & Software Development. The Cloud Gambit has a technology audience.

About the host

Packet Pushers hosts The Cloud Gambit, a technology show with 33 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #86

    TCG086: Why Training AI to Have a Self Makes Governance Harder

    Oct 14, 20261h 14m

    John Capobianco returns to the show to discuss the latest developments in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic infrastructure. John and host William Collins weigh in on the ongoing debate on AI consciousness...

  • Episode #85

    TCG085: Enterprise Salescraft with Drew Meli

    Sep 30, 202655 min

    William Collins and guest Drew Meli explore the realities of buying enterprise SaaS and infrastructure. They cover the common engineering misconceptions about enterprise sales, navigating rigorous security reviews...

  • Episode #83

    TCG083: Superintelligence for Everyone: Who Actually Holds the Power?

    Sep 2, 202653 min

    Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and...

  • Episode #82

    TCG082: AI News Roundtable – Copyrights, AI Watermarks, and the Open Weight Debate

    Aug 19, 202646 min

    William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp dig into the latest AI headlines, from the largest copyright settlement in American history to stolen AI models and invisible watermarks on Claude output. Plus, they discuss why so many...

  • Episode #81

    TCG081: Network Automation Forum: From Simple Survey to Global Community

    Aug 5, 20261h 5m

    William Collins is joined by guest co-host Eric Chou as well as Network Automation Forum founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann to discuss how their community emerged from a simple question: Why haven’t we...

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  • Episode #80

    TCG080: Skills Over MCP and More

    Jul 22, 202656 min

    What if your MCP server shipped with its own manual? Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins William and Eyvonne to break down the Skills Over MCP working group effort, which delivers...

  • Episode #79

    TCG079: Why Your State File is Actually a Distributed Systems Problem

    Jul 1, 202648 min

    Malcolm Matalka joins William and Eyvonne to challenge the narrative that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is dead. Malcolm argues that the real value of IaC was never the syntax, but state and governance. Together they...

  • Episode #78

    TCG078: The Pope’s AI Encyclical: Navigating AI with Values

    Jun 17, 202651 min

    The Pope issued a recent encyclical on AI, urging developers to safeguard human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. Eyvonne and William explore this encyclical, moving beyond the headlines to the core message...

  • Episode #77

    News Roundtable: Data Center Backlash and the AI Chip War

    Jun 3, 202645 minS0

    William and Eyvonne discuss recent tech news, including the growing political and community opposition to AI data centers driven by fears over power and water usage. They also analyze the “AI Chip War” as hyperscalers...

  • Episode #76

    Packet Pushers Assemble! Bridging the Telemetry Divide

    May 20, 202656 minS0

    Today our Packet Pushers team assembles to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of...

  • Episode #75

    Say the Thing: How the Network Automation Conference Circuit Shaped One SP Operator's Voice

    May 6, 202649 minS0

    Eyvonne and William sit down with Joseph Nicholson, a Network Operations Engineer with NTT DATA, to share how public speaking transformed his career and technical experience. Joseph went from a terrifying ten minute...

  • Episode #74

    From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure

    Apr 22, 202645 minS0

    Eyvonne Sharp and William Collins speak with Sif Baksh, Principal Solutions Architect at Tines, to discuss the power of automation. Sif shares some personal stories of how he has been able to use automation to innovate...

  • Episode #73

    From Vibes to Governed: What Building a Real Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development

    Apr 8, 202658 minS0

    Vibe coding: give AI a description of what you want, the model writes the code, you ship it, and then you hope for the best. It works great for side projects, but it can fall apart the moment you point an AI agent at...

  • Episode #72

    AI and the Automation Engineer - When Your Scripts Start Writing Themselves

    Mar 25, 202650 minS0

    William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp invite Skylar Sands, Senior Automation Engineer at World Wide Technology, to discuss what it means to integrate AI into the daily workflow in a meaningful way. Together they break down...

  • Episode #71

    Cloud Cloning and Portability - Why Multi-Cloud Freedom Still Requires Translation (Sponsored)

    Mar 18, 202635 minS0

    In this sponsored episode, FluidCloud co-founders Sharad Kumar and Harshit Omar sit down with William and Eyvonne to discuss how FluidCloud tackles multi-cloud portability. They detail how FluidCloud acts as a cloning...

  • Episode #70

    The Effort Illusion: Why AI Tools Reward Expertise, Not Shortcuts

    Mar 11, 202648 minS0

    The tech industry is split between two fantasies – that AI writes production software while you get coffee, and that everything AI touches is slop. The reality is messier and more interesting: AI tools are force...

  • Episode #69

    Viral Predictions, Waterfall’s Comeback, and the SaaSpocalypse

    Feb 25, 202655 minS0

    William and Eyvonne tackle the biggest AI stories of early 2026. They dissect Matt Schumer’s viral “Something Big is Happening” essay – agreeing professionals need to skill up now while pushing back on the doomsday...

  • Episode #68

    Agents and Identity – Navigating What We Can’t Predict

    Feb 11, 202657 minS0

    We’ve spent a decade figuring out how to (more or less) securely authenticate humans. Now AI agents are crashing the party, and identity just got a whole lot more complicated. Today we sit down with Dan Moore, Senior...

  • Episode #67

    Progressive Delivery: Shipping Software is Just the Beginning with Adam Zimman

    Jan 28, 202655 minS0

    In this episode, we sit down with Adam Zimman, author and VC advisor, to explore the world of progressive delivery and why shipping software is only the beginning. Adam shares his fascinating journey through tech—from...

  • Episode #66

    How Infrastructure Teams Can Scale Reasoning Without Losing Control with Chris Wade

    Jan 14, 202642 minS0

    The industry has pivoted from scripting to automation to orchestration – and now to systems that can reason. Today we explore what AI agents mean for infrastructure with Chris Wade, Co-Founder and CTO of Itential. We...

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