298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops

298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News April 2, 2025 Duration: 1:05:02

Welcome to episode 298 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are in the house (and still very much missing Jonathan) to bring you a  jam packed show this week, with news from Beijing to Virginia! Did you know Virginia was in the US? Amazon definitely wants you to know that. 

We’ve got updates from BigQuery Git Support and their new collab tools, plus all the AI updates you were hoping you’d miss. Tune in now! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • The Cloud Pod now Recorded from Planet Earth
  • Wait Java still exists?
  • When will java just be coffee and not software
  • Cloudflare Makes AI beat Mazes
  • Replacing native mobile things with mobile web apps won’t fix your problems AWS
  • Turn your security over to the bots
  • The Cloud Pod is lost in the AI labyrinth 
  • AI security agents to secure the AI… wait recursion
  • Durable + Stateless.. I don’t know if you know what those words means
  • Click ops expands to our phones yay!
  • The Cloud Pod is now a data analyst 
  • Gitops come to bigquery

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