I'm joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and Viktor Farcic from Upbound, to go through our 2025 year in review. We look into the AI tools that consumed us this year, from CLI agents to terminal emulators, IDEs, AI browsers - what worked, what flopped, what's worth your time and money, and what we think isn't!

Check out the video podcast version here:
https://youtu.be/mnagfUsh5bc

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Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Nirmal Mehta - Host
• Viktor Farcic - Guest

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• (00:00) - Introduction
• (04:15) - Game of AI Tools
• (04:41) - Reflecting on the Fast-Paced Year
• (07:12) - CLI Tools and AI Integration
• (08:50) - Ghostty
• (11:49) - Terminal Preferences and AI Tools
• (13:53) - Claude Code
• (16:14) - Skills
• (27:21) - Warp
• (34:42) - AWS Kiro and Spec-Driven Development
• (41:01) - Visual Editors (IDEs)
• (46:22) - Zed
• (48:32) - AI Browsers
• (01:02:13) - Notion AI
• (01:04:31) - Code Rabbit MCP
• (01:07:10) - AI Optimization
• (01:10:02) - Ad Blocking and AI SEO

I talk with David Flanagan, aka Rawkode, about his new opinionated Tech Matrix that helps you navigate the overwhelming CNCF landscape. https://rawkode.academy/technology/matrix

🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation. I'm thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾

★Show Links★

• RawKode Academy website
• David's Discord
• David's LinkedIn
• David on social media: @rawkode everywhere

Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/1LigTOlFiYk

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• David Flanagan - Guest

You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!

Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com

• (00:00) - Intro
• (04:46) - Opinions on HashiCorp
• (08:54) - The CNCF Landscape
• (10:23) - Opinionated Tech Matrix
• (17:48) - Tech Matrix in Detail
• (28:11) - The Advocate List
• (28:55) - Cloud Events and CUE
• (30:12) - SpiceDB and Teleport
• (31:38) - Service Meshes: Linkerd vs. Istio
• (32:23) - Kubernetes and CNI
• (33:18) - Observability Tools
• (33:59) - WebAssembly and Rust
• (34:45) - Learning Paths and DevOps
• (42:32) - Key Takeaways
• (45:30) - Database Fundamentals

Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster.

🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation. I'm thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾

In this episode, we nerd out over how Cast AI works under the hood, use cases for it, including hardware and OS maintenance on a node. I've got a feeling Cast AI has a winning feature on their hands.

★Show Links★
Cast AI website
Cast AI YouTube Channel

Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/yINNWxRywv4

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Dan Muret - Guest
• Philip Andrews - Guest

You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!

Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (02:21) - Cast AI Elevator Pitch
• (06:57) - Stateful Workloads
• (10:03) - Bin Packing in Live Migration
• (13:35) - Stateful vs Stateless
• (15:43) - Networking and Storage Considerations
• (23:03) - Future Developments and Use Cases
• (25:43) - ML Workloads
• (28:25) - Live Migration of Spot Instances
• (31:01) - Live Migration Process Explained
• (39:02) - Challenges and Engineering Behind Live Migration
• (43:56) - Getting Started with Cast AI