{"podcast":{"title":"Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News","slug":"ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","podcast_index_feed_id":7591275,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.shipitweekly.fm/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/20260103_010109_fc16278a46c7b2c61123ed668a34f79d.jpg","author":"Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast","episode_count":55,"summary":"Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture. This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time. Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own en…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:20:39.423055+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275"},"episode":{"title":"Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure Testing","slug":"ship-it-conversations-ang-chen-on-project-vera-ai-cloud-emulation-and-safer-infrastructure-testing","published_at":"2026-03-23T01:16:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275/ship-it-conversations-ang-chen-on-project-vera-ai-cloud-emulation-and-safer-infrastructure-testing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/ship-it-weekly/2650385","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/356364/2650385/ship-it-weekly/2026_03_23_01_08_16_0fcd9974-c05e-4b78-b8f8-0b005208380b.mp3","summary":"This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly , separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Ang Chen from the University of Michigan about Project Vera, a cloud emulator built to help teams test infrastructure changes more safely before they touch real cloud. We talk about why testing against real cloud APIs is slow, expensive, and risky, how Vera works under tools like Terraform and CloudFormation, what “high fidelity” actually means, and where a tool like this could fit in local dev and CI/CD. The bigger theme is one I think matters a lot: if AI is going to play a real role in cloud operations, it probably needs a sandbox first, not direct access to production. Note This interview was recorded on February 13, 2026. Since then, Vera’s public project materials have expanded the framing a bit further around multi-cloud support and safe environments for agent learning, so keep that in mind while listening. Highlights • Why real cloud testing still creates cost, delay, and risk • How Vera emulates cloud behavior at the API layer • Where this could help with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD workflows • Why “useful enough to catch real mistakes” may matter more than perfect emulation • The limits, tradeoffs, and fidelity questions that still need to be solved • Why safe training grounds may matter before AI agents touch real infrastructure Ang’s links • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ang-chen-8b877a17/ • University of Michigan profile: https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/people/chen-ang/ • Publications: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~chenang/pubs.html Project Vera • Project site: https://project-vera.github.io/ • GitHub: https://github.com/project-vera/vera • The quest for AI Agents as DevOps: https://project-vera.gith…","meta_description":"This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly , separate from the weekly news recaps. 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