Cloud Native Testing Podcast

In this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, host Ole Lensmar sits down with Alex Buccino, a 30-year tech industry veteran and former engineering leader at Google and Squarespace. The conversation dives deep into the monumental challenge of testing at Google scale, specifically focusing on the evolution of the Google Maps data infrastructure. Alex introduces listeners to "SandMan" (Sandbox Manager), a revolutionary internal tool built on Google's Borg that allowed developers to spin u...

In this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, host Ole Lensmar (CTO at Testkube) sits down with Lakshmi, one of the latest veterans to join the Testkube team. Together, they explore how the AI revolution is fundamentally changing the relationship between development and QA—and why testers might just be the ultimate "vibe coders." Lakshmi shares his journey from electrical engineering and performance testing at Comcast to building his own AI-driven translation app without touching an ID...

In this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Sahana Nagabhushan to tackle the complexities of software lifecycle inefficiencies and developer productivity. Drawing from her extensive product management experience at Fidelity Investments and Workday, Sahana breaks down why companies burn millions of dollars and years of engineering time building custom Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) like Backstage. Instead of relying solely on generic frameworks, she advoc...

Welcome to the first edition of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast for 2026! In this episode, host Ole Lensmar is joined by Yacine Kheddache to dive deep into Microcks, a CNCF Sandbox project dedicated to API mocking and simulation. As cloud-native architectures grow more complex, the need to decouple services during development is critical. Yacine explains how Microcks serves as a "Swiss Army Knife" for developers, offering a single solution to mock and test REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and Event-Driv...

In this episode, Ole Lensmar joins Richard Li, founder of Polar Sky, to explore how testing strategies must evolve for the age of AI. They discuss the journey of cloud-native tools like Telepresence and Richard's key insight for agentic coding: using automated tests as the "context" to guide AI behavior, rather than relying on complex prompts to describe system rules. The conversation also digs into the mechanics of building AI-driven software, emphasizing why "evals" are critical for measuri...