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bradshaw.cloud: Audio Edition

John Bradshaw

Essays and strategy insights on cloud economics, edge architecture and AI infrastructure, read aloud in a synthetic clone of the author’s voice. Each episode is the full text of a piece from bradshaw.cloud, narrated by a synthetic voice cloned from John Bradshaw with his consent; the written version, with its diagrams and tables, is linked from every episode. Personal views, not those of my employer.

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52 episodes

  1. Model Routing: The Cheapest Model Is the One You Didn't Call 11:14
  2. Your Internal Developer Platform Will Not Survive AI Unchanged 11:14
  3. A PWA Is Not an Edge Strategy 4:47
  4. Most AI Requests Aren't AI Problems 7:53
  5. An AI Agent Is Not a Service Account 20:07
  6. Typed Decision Models 12:53
  7. AI Delegation Loop 5:13
  8. Agentic API Security 15:36
  9. Sovereign AI 4:40
  10. Data Residency Is Not Sovereign AI 17:31
  11. AI Platform Operating Model 4:48
  12. Agent Authority 4:30
  13. Technical Debt Prioritisation 10:41
  14. Team Topology Decisions 11:00
  15. FinOps for AI 7:37
  16. The Model Context Protocol: A Strategic Reference for Technical Leaders 14:09
  17. Cloud Repatriation 5:11
  18. Platform Operating Model 7:23
  19. FinOps Maturity 7:45
  20. Developers as Customers 7:42
  21. AI Governance Is Enforcement, Not Intent 6:52
  22. Model Compression 3:34
  23. Frontier Models 5:02
  24. AI Grid 5:29
  25. Economic Sovereignty 7:24
  26. From Content Wars to Experience Wars 3:58
  27. Build vs Buy: The Decision Framework Every CTO Gets Wrong 8:19
  28. Build vs Buy 7:06
  29. AI Cost Curves: When API Pricing Becomes Your Biggest Infrastructure Decision 9:51
  30. AI Cost Curves 9:05
  31. Agentic AI Patterns: From Chatbots to Autonomous Workers 15:02
  32. Agentic AI Patterns 8:58
  33. Model Context Protocol 4:58
  34. AI Fundamentals 12:31
  35. State of Cloud 2025: Navigating EMEA's Cloud Revolution 4:59
  36. What is a Proposal? 4:34
  37. SSH into Windows 8:56
  38. Technical Debt Portfolio Scorecards: Stop Arguing About Messy Code 4:33
  39. Cloud Exit Readiness: The Dependency Test Before You Repatriate Anything 4:10
  40. Platform Product Metrics: How to Tell Whether Your Internal Platform Is Helping 4:36
  41. Agentic AI Control Planes: The Guardrails That Make Autonomy Operable 5:49
  42. FinOps for AI Metrics: The Scorecard That Turns Token Spend into Decisions 5:16
  43. MCP Security and Governance: The Control Map Enterprises Actually Need 7:04
  44. What Your Strengths Assessment Won't Tell You 4:39
  45. AI Governance Operating Models: Who Decides, Who Enforces, Who Gets Paged 19:19
  46. After the Interview: What I Wish I'd Had More Time to Say About the AI Grid 7:26
  47. FinOps for AI: Why Your LLM Bill Is Exploding — and How to Stop It 10:03
  48. The Streaming Wars Were Won on Content. The Next Ones Won't Be. 5:27
  49. Compression Is the Family. Quantisation Is One Cousin. 6:32
  50. Cloud Repatriation Is Portfolio Management, Not Ideology 8:08