In episode 54 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with David Crawshaw. David shares how a weekend WireGuard experiment became Tailscale, and how a series of unsuccessful developer-tool experiments eventually became exe.dev. The conversation offers a candid look at product discovery, technical failure, cloud economics, and building infrastructure for AI agents.

On episode 53 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Anurag Goel. Anurag shares his journey from early employee at Stripe to founder and CEO of Render, one of the fastest-growing application platforms in cloud infrastructure. They discuss Kubernetes, platform engineering, bare metal, AI agents, and what the future of application deployment looks like.

On episode 52 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Hugo Santos. They discuss the evolution of Namespace Labs, why traditional cloud infrastructure isn't always optimized for developer workflows, and what it takes to build a vertically integrated platform for builds, testing, and developer productivity. Hugo also shares lessons learned from nearly a decade at Google and years of startup building.

On episode 51 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Kyle Galbraith. Kyle shares the story behind Depot and explains how the company evolved from accelerating Docker builds into building an entirely new CI platform designed for the AI era. The conversation explores BuildKit internals, remote caching, microVMs, AWS infrastructure, and why modern software development may require rethinking CI from the ground up.

On episode 50 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Ivan Burazin to explore the rise of sandbox environments for AI agents, how Daytona enables instant, stateful compute, and why traditional infrastructure models fall short. Ivan also shares lessons from building early cloud IDEs and finding product-market fit in the AI era.

On episode 49 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Felipe Huici to explore how unikernels are reshaping modern cloud infrastructure. They discuss virtualization, containers, and how Unikraft enables millisecond startup times and massive workload density. The conversation dives deep into performance engineering, Kubernetes integration, and the infrastructure challenges emerging in the AI era.

On episode 48 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Justin Cappos, professor at NYU and a pioneer in software supply chain security. They explore the origins of modern package manager security, the real-world limits of SBOMs, and why systems should be designed assuming compromise. The conversation spans CNCF governance, in-toto, TUF, Git security, and the emerging role of AI in securing software.

In episode 47 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with Grant Miller, Founder and CEO of Replicated. This talk chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of Replicated and the many entrepreneurial lessons learned along the way. Grant and Marc also unveil SecureBuild, a new offering for open source projects. Lastly they share their firsthand experiences using AI-assisted coding tools and how they’re revolutionizing productivity.