The Cloud Gambit

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Unraveling 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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#82
August 19 · 45 min
TCG082: AI News Roundtable – Copyrights, AI Watermarks, and the Open Weight Debate
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,…
#81
August 5 · 1 hr 4 min
TCG081: Network Automation Forum: From Simple Survey to Global Community
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…
#80
July 22 · 56 min
TCG080: Skills Over MCP and More
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…
#79
July 1 · 47 min
TCG079: Why Your State File is Actually a Distributed Systems Problem
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…
#78
June 17 · 50 min
TCG078: The Pope’s AI Encyclical: Navigating AI with Values
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…
#77
June 3 · 45 min
TCG077: News Roundtable: Data Center Backlash and the AI Chip War
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 W…
#76
May 20 · 56 min
TCG076: Packet Pushers Assemble! Bridging the Telemetry Divide
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,…
#75
May 6 · 48 min
TCG075: Say the Thing: How the Network Automation Conference Circuit Shaped One SP Operator’s Voice
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…
#74
April 22 · 44 min
TCG074: From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure
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…
#73
April 8 · 57 min
TCG073: From Vibes to Governed: What Building a Real Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development
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…
#72
March 25 · 49 min
TCG072: AI and the Automation Engineer – When Your Scripts Start Writing Themselves
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.…
#70
March 11 · 48 min
TCG070: The Effort Illusion: Why AI Tools Reward Expertise, Not Shortcuts
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 to…
#69
February 25 · 54 min
TCG069: Viral Predictions, Waterfall’s Comeback, and the SaaSpocalypse
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 …
#68
February 11 · 56 min
TCG068: Agents and Identity – Navigating What We Can’t Predict
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 …
#67
January 28 · 55 min
TCG067: Progressive Delivery: Shipping Software is Just the Beginning with Adam Zimman
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…
#66
January 14 · 42 min
TCG066: How Infrastructure Teams Can Scale Reasoning Without Losing Control with Chris Wade
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 C…
#65
Dec 10, 2025 · 41 min
TCG065: AutoCon 4 Recap, AI Tools, MCP’s First Birthday, and More
In this year-end episode, William and Eyvonne recap their experiences at AutoCon 4 in Austin, Texas. They discuss the conference’s new multi-track format, including Eyvonne’s presentation in the lea…
#64
Dec 3, 2025 · 39 min
TCG064: Governing AI Agents for Real-World Infrastructure (Sponsored)
In this sponsored episode recorded live at AutoCon 4 in Austin, we sit down with Peter Sprygada, Chief Architect at Itential, to discuss Itential’s on-stage announcement of FlowAI. Peter shares his j…
#63
Nov 26, 2025 · 53 min
TCG063: Constraint Drives Innovation with John Capobianco
Recorded live at AutoCon4, William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp join forces with John Capobianco for some in the moment thoughts and reflections on the AutoCon experience – from the in-person c…
#62
Nov 12, 2025 · 48 min
TCG062: The Tech Expertise Deficit with Russ White
Today we delve into the tech expertise deficit and why technical depth and decades of doing the work matter more than social media followers and content creation hype. Our guest is Russ White,…

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