The sharpest ideas, honest moments, and quotable insights pulled straight from our conversations across OpenChannels FM.
On the lighter side
Thank you so much for taking time out of your roller coaster riding day. I want to let you get back out there to riding roller coasters or whatever crazy kids do at Cloud Fest right over there. If you want to go get a tattoo, you’re welcome to do that. A lasting memento. This place is nuts.”
— Adam Weeks at CloudFest 2026
Tips, insights and commentary
“What’s really interesting is…everybody’s gone so verticalized that it’s hard to find a platform partner that has a wide expertise at enterprise scale that can understand performance and do that. So we started looking at a partner specifically for all. Can we bring some of our clients here? And while we were talking about that, we realized that we have a problem around bringing those things together with other partners. We’ve had to manage either multiple hosts or multiple stacks in multiple departments.” —Karim Marucchi, Episode 742
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“Every time someone loads a web page, data flows through servers, data centers and cables that generates CO2 because it requires a lot of energy. So an average web page generates around 1.76 CO2 per simple view. That can sound like a really low number, until we calculate and analyze—web page with at least like 10,000 views monthly can generate over 200 kg of CO2 per year. This number is really huge and it comes from unoptimized code, unused CSS and other issues that product owners and web owners don’t even realize about the impact that it has on the environment.” — Ekaterina Streltsova, Episode 739
A Two-Way Street: Building Trust in Agency Partnerships
“I mean it’s just you can only infer so much like tone or meaning through an email or a Slack message and. And everybody is busy. Right. So sometimes you’re back and forth, send these messages and emails is just kind of short and succinct because you don’t have a lot of time when you get to sit down, you can actually understand who they are, where they’re coming from, from their business, the thing that they’re offering and then just who are they as a person, you know, and can I, you know, genuinely trust them with, you know, parts of my business and then can I, can they trust me? It’s so it’s a two way street and you got to have a mutually beneficial relationship as well. You just need that human element.” – Carrie Samaha, Episode 743
