Ship It Weekly
The DevOps and SRE podcast for practitioners — honest conversations on shipping software, running production, and the on-call reality the keynotes skip.
The DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News Podcast
Weekly DevOps, SRE, Platform, and Cloud engineering news plus real conversations with people building this stuff in production.
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Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure Testing
In this episode, Ang Chen discusses Project Vera, a cloud emulator designed to enable safer infrastructure testing before impacting real cloud environments.
McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on Kubernetes
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses the implications of new AI interfaces on existing responsibilities. He covers McKinsey's AI tool vulnerability, Kafka's diskless topics model, Google's acquisition of Wiz, AWS Copilot's end, and Kubernetes' AI Gateway initiative.
Meta Buys Moltbook, Block AI Layoffs Get Messier, Atlassian Cuts Jobs, and GitHub Explains the Outages
This episode of Ship It Weekly dives into five key stories at the intersection of AI and reality, focusing on the implications for DevOps and SRE teams. Topics include Meta's acquisition of Moltbook, Block's messy AI layoffs, Atlassian's job cuts, and GitHub's outage analysis.
Ship It Conversations: Yvonne Young on Linux Foundations, Mentorship, and Getting Job Ready in Cloud
In this episode, Yvonne Young discusses the essential skills for breaking into cloud and DevOps, emphasizing Linux fundamentals and the importance of focus.
AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code Security
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses the expanding boundaries of operations, including AWS issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, and GitOps failures with ArgoCD.
Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)
This episode of Ship It Weekly delves into Cloudflare's BYOIP outage, highlighting how automation can lead to unintended BGP withdrawals, and Clerk's performance issues from a query plan flip in Postgres.
Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI Era
In this episode, Mike Lady discusses day two readiness and the importance of guardrails in the AI era. He explains how effective guardrails can enhance safety and predictability in code delivery, especially as AI-generated code becomes prevalent.
GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope Creep
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses significant shifts in operational defaults affecting DevOps teams. Topics include GitHub's Agentic Workflows, Gentoo's migration to Codeberg, Argo CD's upgrade challenges, and AWS Config's expanded coverage.
Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)
In this special episode, Brian analyzes the OpenClaw security incident, highlighting its implications for platform teams dealing with local AI agents.
When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creep
This episode of Ship It Weekly explores incidents where legacy guardrails caused significant issues. GitHub's outdated abuse protections blocked legitimate users, while Kubernetes nodes exposed vulnerabilities.
Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCP
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses a significant Azure VM management outage affecting operations across multiple regions. He also covers GitHub's new Agent HQ with Claude and Codex, updates to GitHub Actions, and the evolving role of MCP in platform development.
CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCE
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses four critical "glue failures" that can lead to outages and security risks. Topics include a CodeBuild webhook misconfiguration, Bazel TLS certificate expiry, Helm chart reliability issues, and new vulnerabilities in n8n.
Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)
In this episode, Austin Reed discusses effective AI automation strategies for small and mid-sized businesses. He highlights common wins in sales and customer service, the importance of clear communication, and when to implement 'human-in-the-loop' systems.
curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
This episode of Ship It Weekly discusses how faster systems are creating new challenges for developers. Curl ends its bug bounty program due to low-quality AI reports, highlighting incentive issues. AWS reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover downtime to ~5 seconds, but risks remain.
n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent Lessons
This episode of Ship It Weekly discusses the critical n8n vulnerability CVE-2026-21877, emphasizing the need to treat workflow tools as control planes. It also covers GitHub's fine-grained artifact permissions and AWS's insights on operationalizing DevOps agents.
Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)
In this episode, Gracious James discusses TARS, a human-in-the-loop fixer bot designed to enhance CI/CD processes. He explains how TARS integrates tools like n8n and GitHub while maintaining crucial guardrails to prevent errors in production.
n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix Temporal
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, the focus is on the critical n8n CVE-2026-21858 vulnerability, highlighting the importance of treating automation tools as part of the security perimeter.
Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)
In this episode, Danny Teller discusses the nuances of internal developer platforms (IDPs) versus Backstage, emphasizing that simply setting up a portal isn't enough.
Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCA
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian explores automation's rapid advancement and its implications for oversight.
Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)
In this episode, Eric Paatey shares his journey transitioning from full-stack development to Cloud/DevOps, emphasizing hands-on project experience. He discusses the importance of communication in DevOps, the challenges of tool overload, and his simple homelab setup for learning.
Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin Access
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses Cloudflare's internal maintenance scheduler built on Workers, addressing memory limits and data modeling.
Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)
In this episode, Mazharul Islam discusses the core principles of DevOps, emphasizing the importance of understanding the 'why' behind practices rather than just tools.
GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CI
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses the implications of GitHub's paused pricing changes for self-hosted runners and HashiCorp's Terraform Cloud limits.
IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on Aurora
In this episode, the hosts discuss IBM's $11B acquisition of Confluent and its implications for users of Confluent Cloud and Kafka.
AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing Staging
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses key AWS re:Invent updates relevant for platform and SRE teams, including regional NAT Gateways and ECS Express Mode.
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About Ship It Weekly
Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.
Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture.
This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time.
Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own environment.
If you’re the person people DM when something is broken in prod, or you’re building the cloud and platform everyone else ships on top of, Ship It Weekly is meant to be in your rotation.
Meet Brian Teller
Brian is the host of Ship It Weekly and the builder behind Teller's Tech, a media and training platform focused on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and the real-world work of keeping production systems alive.
Brian started Ship It Weekly because most tech news says what happened—but not always why it matters to the people on-call when the headline becomes their incident.