TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast
The TestGuild DevOps Toolchain Podcast is a practical, engineer-focused show for navigating the modern DevOps landscape, covering the tools, practices, and decisions that power reliable software delivery at scale. Previously known as the TestGuild Performance and SRE Podcast, this show brings together DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and engineering leaders to explore what's actually working in real-world environments. Each episode features in-depth conversations with industry experts and hands-on practitioners, diving into topics like CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, performance and reliability engineering, security and compliance, observability, and the growing role of AI in DevOps workflows. If you're responsible for keeping systems fast, reliable, and secure, and want practical insights beyond vendor hype—the DevOps Toolchain Podcast helps you make smarter tooling choices, improve delivery confidence, and stay ahead of how DevOps is evolving.
Episodes
In this episode of the TestGuild DevOps Toolchain podcast, Joe Colantonio sits down with Brad Groux, technologist, AI strategist, and CEO of Digital Meld, to explore what it really takes for businesses to adopt AI successfully.
Brad shares practical insights on:
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How to prepare your people, processes, and data before bringing in AI tools like Copilot or ChatGPT
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Separating hype from reality when evaluating AI and automation s...
In this episode of the TestGuild DevOps Toolchain Podcast, host Joe Colantonio sits down with Jennifer Rahmani, Co-founder and COO of Thoras.ai, a company redefining how infrastructure scales with AI-driven predictive technology. Drawing from her years as a DevOps engineer in the defense tech sector, Jennifer shares how she and her twin sister turned real-world frustrations into a reliability-first platform that eliminates the gues...
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In this episode of the DevOps Toolchain Podcast, I sit down with Matt Fellows, co-founder of Pacflow and core maintainer of the PACT framework (now under SmartBear). We dive into the evolution of contract testing, how agentic AI tools like Copilot and Cursor are shaping testing workflows, and what the next 3–5 y...
Today, we're diving into a hot topic for many in the software industry: leaping testing to DevOps. Joining us is Maciek Konkolowicz, a senior DevOps manager at an AI-driven test automation platform, who brings more than a decade of experience ensuring software quality and accelerating delivery.
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Maciek shares his journey from functional test automation to DevOps lea...
How do you go from idea to impact—without wasting time or overbuilding too early?
In this episode, Joe Colantonio is joined by Mac, CTO at Wednesday Solutions, to dive deep into what it really takes to scale software smartly and sustainably. They explore the mindset and systems needed to go from MVP to product-market fit, how to think about scaling for 3 years (not forever), and the biggest distribution mistakes startups make.
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On this episode host Joe Colantonio sits down with Jacek Marmuszewski of Let's Go DevOps, an expert with more than a decade of experience building and managing mission-critical cloud infrastructure for companies like Sabre and Oracle, as well as for numerous startups.
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Jacek shares his journey from a Java and C programmer to a cloud-native advocate and DevOps...
In this episode of the DevOps Toolchain podcast, we dive deep into the evolving intersection of AI, IoT, and embedded systems with special guest Hariharan Ragothaman who's a seasoned technologist and DevSecOps expert.
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Hariharan shares how he went from programming in BASIC as a kid to leading cutting-edge AI server validation today. We explore the mindset shif...
In this episode of the DevOps Toolchain podcast, host Joe Colantonio sits down with Thomas Hurley, Product Lead at SmartBear for ReadyAPI and SoapUI, to unpack everything you need to know about modern API testing in secure, regulated, and high-stakes environments.
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We explore why some organizations still choose on-prem API testing despite the cloud boom, and the criti...
On this episode of the TestGuild DevOps Toolchain, host Joe Colantonio is joined by Maurice McCabe, a seasoned AI engineer from AIA Systems whose expertise spans over two decades and the rise of agentic AI. Together, they dive deep into the rapidly evolving world of DevOps, AI-driven development, and modern product testing.
Maurice shares his experiences from the early days of machine learning to today's generative AI revolution, u...
In today's episode, we discuss cybersecurity with Grant McCracken, a seasoned expert with over 13 years of experience in ethical hacking and executive-level cybersecurity roles.
As the founder of Dark Horse Security, Grant shares his journey into the field, practical advice for aspiring ethical hackers, and actionable tips for organizations navigating the challenges of security in the AI era.
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Welcome back to the DevOps Toolchain podcast! In this episode, host Joe Colantonio is joined by Temil Sanchez, a Product Manager at SmartBear, for a deep dive into how quality truly becomes a team effort—especially when aligning development, QA, and product teams within agile API environments.
Together, they explore the evolution and surge in API adoption, the unique challenges of collaborating on APIs in agile settings, and the im...
Today, we're talking all about mobile testing in DevOps with special guest Todd McNeal, co-founder of Reflect—a cutting-edge AI-powered test automation tool now part of the SmartBear family.
Todd breaks down the dynamic shifts happening in mobile testing, from the challenges of manual processes to the game-changing adoption of low-code, no-code, and pure AI-driven automation.
We explore how Reflect's AI approach is making mobile ap...
In this episode, hosts Joe Colantonio and Mark Koelsch explore AI-driven business intelligence and its impact on today's industries.
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Tune in as they unpack how AI, once a niche discipline, has exploded into mainstream business conversations since the emergence of tools like ChatGPT. They cut through the buzz and fear around AI, discu...
In this episode of the DevOps Toolchain podcast, Joe Colantonio sits down with Jacob Leverich, cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Observe, to explore how AI and cutting-edge data strategies are transforming the world of observability.
With a career spanning heavyweight roles from Splunk to Google and Kuro Labs, Jacob shares his journey from banging out Perl scripts as a Linux sysadmin to building scalable, data-driven solutions...
In this episode, host Joe Colantonio dives deep into the future of AI in DevOps with Bridges Smith, the VP of Product Management for AI at SmartBear. With over 25 years of experience leading innovations in product development, machine learning, and AI, Bridges brings a wealth of firsthand insights on how AI is rapidly evolving and shaping how developers and testers work.
Together, Joe and Bridges explore the shift from basic genera...
Today, special guest Fitz Nowlan, VP of AI and Architecture at SmartBear, dives deep into the ever-evolving world of AI in software testing.
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This episode is packed with insights from Fitz, who shares his front-row perspective on what's genuinely innovative versus what's just hype in today's AI-powered DevOps landscape.
Fitz also tackles hot topics like M...
In this awesome installment, host Joe Colantonio sits down with Mark Meier and Tom Miseur from Grafana Labs to dive deep into the world of performance testing and how their brand new open source Grafana k6 Studio is making these powerful practices accessible for everyone on your team—from developers to QA and SREs.
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In this episode, we delve into scalable machine-learning infrastructure with our special guest, Elliott Clark.
Elliott is a seasoned DevOps expert and the founder of Batteries Included. Having played a pivotal role in building one of the largest online transaction processing systems and leading the ad infrastructure team at Meta, Elliott is perfectly poised to share his immense knowledge on scaling infrastructure and the intricacie...
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