In this episode, we spoke with Tushar Katarki, senior director of product for Red Hat's GenAI Foundation Model Platforms Portfolio, about some of the issues companies may run into when trying to implement generative AI. 

Key talking points include: 

• The rush to AI
• Challenges companies run into
• The human factor of AI implementation and use

This episode originally aired on our other ITOps focused podcast, Get With IT. To subscribe to that show, visit here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2114207 

In this episode we speak to Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, a pioneer and leader of time series data.

Key talking points: 

• Why specialized databases are needed for collecting time series data
• The challenges of storage and compression
• Integration of time series data with training AI

In this episode, we speak with David Ross, Agile evangelist for Miro, about some of the misconceptions people may have about Agile today.

Key talking points include: 

• How Agile was perceived 15-20 years ago vs today
• The realization that prescriptive frameworks aren't always effective 
• The importance of flexible tool sets that support evolving workflows
• How AI will impact team size and composition

In this episode, we speak with Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, about OpenAI's recent announcement of CriticGPT, a new AI model that provides critiques of ChatGPT responses in order to help the humans training GPT models better evaluate outputs during reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLFH). According to OpenAI, CriticGPT isn't perfect, but it does help trainers catch more problems than they do on their own.

Key talking points include:

• The downsides of having AI testing the quality of other AI models
• Why it's important to be specific about what types of errors the model is allowed to look for
• Is this another example of rushing into AI?

In this episode, we interview Cameron van Orman, chief strategy & marketing officer and GM of Automotive Solutions at Planview. He has a lot of insight into software-defined vehicles and what goes into making them, and offers thoughts on: 

• How automakers are adapting to merge digital experiences into their cars
• Ensuring predictability and visibility into the software supply chain of vehicles
• What goes into making sure these complex software systems don't fail in any capacity
• Subscription services driving up the total cost of ownership for car owners
• Technical debt at auto manufacturers

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Brian Hopkins, VP of Emerging Tech Portfolio at Forrester, about the company's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2024 list.

They talk about:

• The shift from generative AI to agentic AI
• How AI agents are giving way to a number of other emerging technologies
• Splitting generative AI into two categories: text and visual
• How AI is influencing security advances

Read the list: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/top-10-emerging-technologies-for-2024/ 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at Parasoft, about the recent CrowdStrike outages.

They talk about:

• How we've become complacent in being okay with not knowing the quality standards of the software we use
• The battle between productivity and technical debt
• Are companies updating software too frequently?

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/test/qa-lessons-not-learned-from-crowdstrike-and-other-incidents/ 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein speaks to Konrad Niemiec, founder and CEO of Lekko about: 

• What feature flags are
• "Stale flags" and why they're an issue
• Why dynamic feature flags helps cut down on stale flags

In this episode, we speak to Bec Rumbul, executive director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, about the new Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, a subgroup dedicated to advancing the use of the Rust language in safety-critical software, such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, utilities, etc. 

She talks about:

• Why Rust is a good choice for these applications
• Why they're focusing on providing more support to developers using Rust in these safety-critical software
• The goals of the consortium. 

Learn more about the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/safety-critical-rust-consortium-forms-at-the-rust-foundation/
Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/qa-on-the-rust-foundations-new-safety-critical-rust-consortium/

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Madeleine Corneli, lead product manager of AI/ML at Exasol, about how companies can assess the actual ROI of their AI investments. 

Key talking points include:

• What metrics to track
• How to analyze metrics and adapt
• Figuring out the right questions to ask
• Advice for getting started tracking metrics related to AI

In this episode, SD Times News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Lau, CEO and co-founder of Jellyfish, about Jellyfish's 2024 State of Engineering report. Some of the main findings were that 65% of respondents experienced burnout in the last year and that engineers are now having more of a say in business strategy than they have in the past.

Key talking points:

• The factors contributing to burnout today
• What leaders can do to cut down on burnout
• Engineers are now informing business strategy

Referenced in this episode: 
Jellyfish's 2024 State of Engineering Management Report: https://jellyfish.co/resources/2024-state-of-engineering-management-report/
Our writeup of the report: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/report-software-engineers-increasingly-seen-as-strategic-business-partners/
Jellyfish's 5-9 podcast: https://jellyfish.co/5-to-9-podcast/ 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Brandon Jung, VP of ecosystem and business development for Tabnine about his concerns with Apple's partnership with OpenAI, which was announced alongside Apple Intelligence as a way to pull in real-world knowledge from ChatGPT for questions Apple's own model cannot answer. 

They discuss: 

• Why it's surprising that Apple decided to partner with OpenAI
• The lack of transparency into Apple's own model
• Why open source models are better for innovation

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, speaks with Michelle Avery, group VP of AI at WillowTree, a TELUS International Company, about a recent survey the company did on rude chatbots.

Key talking points include: 

• What we mean by "rude bot behavior"
• What goes into creating a chatbot that is polite
• How organizations can measure politeness of a chatbot
• On the flip side, humans can be rude to bots too

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company. 

They talk about:

• What it takes to get mobile observability right
• The challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile apps
• OpenTelemetry's role in mobile observability 

Access Embrace's open source mobile observability SDKs here: https://github.com/embrace-io

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Phillip Carter, principal product manager for Honeycomb's AI offerings. 

Key talking points:

• Experienced developers will derive greater value from these tools than newer devs
• Testing is one area where they're really helpful for devs regardless of experience level
• Getting past the hype of what the creators of these tools are promising and setting realistic expectations
• How tools will get better for developers over time

*This episode sponsored by Broadcom*

In this episode, SD Times Editor in Chief David Rubinstein talks to Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom. They recap Broadcom's 2024 VSM Summit and look forward to what's coming next year. 

To access the summit on-demand: https://enterprise-software.broadcom.com/vsm-virtual-summit-2024-on-demand 
To nominate a company for next year's Wavemaker: Broadcom.com/wavemaker

While we largely talk about AI's impact on software development here at SD Times, the reality is that AI will impact nearly every discipline, from business to finance to education to journalism. The University of Maryland recently launched Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) as a collaborative hub for AI research across different departments and subjects.

Hal Daumé III, AIM's inaugural director and a Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, joins us in this episode to talk about AIM's formation, goals, and the role educators have in teaching students how to use AI to properly prepare them for the future workforce. 

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, is joined by Gina Tran, director of product for Bitwarden. They talk about the ever growing problem of secrets getting leaked into production, and why it happens. They also talk about how to prevent this problem and what improvements she has seen in secrets management practices over the last couple of years.

Related reading:
1. The key to successful secrets management is to make the best way the easiest way
2. Implement a good secrets management practice to reduce your security risk

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Mik Freedman, senior director of VMware Tanzu Labs. 

They talk about anti-patterns in Agile and how by identifying them, developers can advance their Agile software development practice. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Kim Mirazimi, chief revenue officer at KMS Technology and Nilesh Patel, senior director of software services at KMS Technology.

They talk about how testing can improve a company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), which is a way of measuring profitability. Kim and Nilesh make the case that by improving testing, organizations can lower costs and deliver higher quality software product more quickly. 

This episode was sponsored by KMS Technology. Learn more about them here: https://kms-technology.com/

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Adam Gluck, CEO and founder of Copia Automation, about using DevOps practices in the manufacturing sector and how many of the principles transfer. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the current state of value stream in the industry and what organizations can do to improve their value streams.

His guest is Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom.

Check out the 2024 Value Stream Management Summit here.

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses how cognitive fatigue is compounding the software productivity problem. 

His guest is Hans Dockter, CEO at Gradle Inc. and lead at Gradle Open Source Project.

In this episode, we speak with Duane Pozza, former assistant director of the FTC and AI lawyer at Wiley Rein, about President Biden’s executive order on AI and the European Union’s AI Act, and what impact those will have on AI technology. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the creation of Winglang, a programming language for the cloud

His guest is Shai Ber, co-founder and COO at Wing Cloud.

In this episode we interview Erin Boyd, director of emerging technologies at Red Hat, about where platform engineering fits into the technology landscape, how organizations are implementing platform engineering teams, and how important this new discipline will become as companies are looking to deliver business value from AI.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses AI-powered software development and some of the challenges that creates. 

His guest is Derek Holt, CEO at Digital.ai. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein speaks with Scott Ambler software engineer, consultant and author of many books including Disciplined Agile Delivery about how companies can determine whether they are truly data driven. 

In this podcast episode,  SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about using code to train AI, especially with open-source code.

Joining him is Chris Wright, CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat.

In this episode, we dive into how low-code platforms are starting to incorporate generative AI capabilities, how this will help citizen developers, and what processes become easiest when combined with generative AI. Joining us to explain all this is Nanxi Liu, co-founder and co-CEO of Blaze.tech, a no-code platform that has already started combining these two technologies to benefit customers. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses best practices for building successful data strategies based on Capital One's new research.

Joining him is Christina Egea, Vice President, Product, Enterprise Data at Capital One. 

In this episode, News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Auren Hoffman, CEO of SafeGraph, which is one of the founding members of Placekey, a free entity resolution service for physical locations. They discuss why the tool was created, what its uses are, and what features are coming down the line.

Learn more about Placekey: https://www.placekey.io/
Learn more about SafeGraph: https://www.safegraph.com/

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about using code to train AI and the new problems it can pose -- especially with open-source code.

Joining him is Chris Wright, CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses observability and the latest on OpenTelemetry. 

Joining him is Morgan McLean, director of product management at Splunk and cofounder of the OpenTelemetry project. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the debate surrounding shift left. His guest is Peter Klimek, director of technology in the office of the CTO at Imperva. 

In this episode, we talk about the role of CNCF in shaping the future of generative AI whether that’s hardware optimization, infrastructure scalability, and innovative application development. 

Our guest is Jorge  Castro, developer advocate at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Listeners can also tune in on-demand to some of the great talks that took place at AI.dev on Dec. 12-13th here!

In this episode, we discuss how despite the wide adoption of AI coding assistants among developers, trust in the security of code suggested and general security politics around AI are lacking. 

Our guest is  Simon Maple, head of AI advocacy Advocate at Snyk to talk about some of the key findings of Snyk’s 2023 AI Code Security Report. 

The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort led by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to provide developers with reliable and interoperable open map data. It was first announced in December 2022 and has already released its first maps dataset with information on over 59 million places around the world. 

In this episode, we spoke with Marc Prioleau, executive director at Overture Maps Foundation and Deane Kensok, content CTO for ArcGIS at Esri, which is a member of the foundation as well. We talked about the history of the project, their vision for map data, and how developers can utilize these datasets. 

What do Taylor Swift concerts and Black Friday have in common? Both events can overwhelm systems when those platforms are built on legacy technology. 

Join David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, as he talks with guest Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO at Cockroach Labs, about using cloud technology and planning to make sure massive spikes in traffic don't swamp your systems. 

In this episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz explores the importance of data integrity when working with AI models.

Joining him is John Jeske, solution architect and  CTO for the Advanced Technology Innovation Group at KMS Technology.

For more info be sure to check out our article "Mastering Data Governance: A Technical Blueprint for the Age of Generative AI."

In this week's episode, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Puneet Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Amberflo, to talk about usage-based pricing, how it compares to other pricing models, the pros and cons, and how it may evolve in the industry in the near future. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein explores the world of software-defined vehicles. 

His guest is Frank Ghenassia, executive chief architect at General Motors.

In this episode, we explore the infrastructure that is needed for LLMs, the key components to building it, and common challenges. We also talk about why LLMs hallucinate and how to reduce the frequency of that from occurring. 

Joining us in the discussion this week is Trey Doig, CTO and co-founder of Pathlight, which is a generative AI company.

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the open talent model and outsourcing/finding talent for organizations. 

His guest is Mike Morris, co-founder and CEO at Torc. 

Hi everyone and welcome to this podcast episode on which Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about the critical cyber vulnerabilities of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and why it’s especially critical to focus on now in the context of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 

His guest is Shiva Nathan, Founder & CEO at Onymos — a startup that enables enterprises to build apps faster. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about the need to have crypto agility in a post-quantum world.

His guest is Kevin Bocek, VP of Ecosystem and Community at Venafi. 

Some say organizations today need a chief AI officer. Others, not so much. Tune in as David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, discusses the issue with Patrick Dougherty, the co-founder and CEO of Rasgo, a company that brings generative AI to the enterprise data warehouse.

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about fundamental aspects of cybersecurity.  We’ll discuss the crucial steps organizations must take to enhance their security posture using it. 

His guest is Sally Vincent, senior threat research engineer at LogRhythm.

In this podcast episode, we talk about what happens when you leverage the power of Web3 to radically transform higher education and about Third Academy, a blockchain-based web3 education platform. 

The podcast guest is Third Academy CEO Stacy Quackenbush. 

Value stream and engineering efficiency.. two different practices, or two sides of the same coin? Listen in as SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein explores the question with Dylan Etkin, founder and CEO of engineering efficiency platform company Sleuth, and an original architect of Jira at Atlassian.

In this episode, SD Times News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Michael Lee, solution engineer at Melissa. He explains the most common data quality issues, how to prevent them, and why regular maintenance of data is key.

Learn more about Melissa at melissa.com

In this episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about what the CISA model is and how to tailor it for teams and enterprise use. 

His guest is Jason Garbis, founder and principal at Numberline Security, author of Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide among many other accomplishments in the security space.

Be sure to check out Jason's guide to the The CISA Maturity Model. 

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron speaks with Aaron Upright, co-founder of Zenhub, about how developers can use AI in their outer loop activities, like planning and prioritizing their work. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein is joined by FreeBSD Foundation executive director Deb Goodkin to discuss the 30th anniversary of the project, how it has evolved from its beginnings, and looks at how open-source software has exploded over that time.

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the evolution of software development, the impact of generative AI on development, and how AI can help testing keep pace with deployment.

His guest is Rishi Singh, co-founder of SapientAI. 

In this week’s episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz spoke to Rob Cuddy, Evangelist for HCL AppScan about tool sprawl in security testing and how organizations can benefit from consolidating on an end-to-end tool.

Additional details on HCLSoftware's tools are available here.

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about a fundamental aspect of cybersecurity that often goes unnoticed: code sanitization. We’ll discuss the crucial steps organizations must take to enhance their security posture using it. 

His guest is Sally Vincent, senior threat research engineer at LogRhythm.

In this episode, ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about whether defect prevention is becoming a lost art. 

His guest is Adrian O'Leary, the SVP of quality engineering and intelligent automation at Apexon. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about RelationalAI and how to infuse decision-making in the enterprise with artificial intelligence. 

His guest is Molham Aref, CEO of RelationalAI. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about value stream intelligence.

His guest is Allstacks CEO and co-founder Hersh Tapadia. 

In this bonus podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about what DevOps engineers need to know today. 

His guest is David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce.

In this episode, Chris Condo, Principal Analyst at Forrester,  talks with SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about software intelligence -- how it's defined and how it can achieved. 

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz spoke to Andrew Wolfe, co-founder and co-CEO at Bloomfilter,  about process mining, an AI-based technology used to model, analyze, and optimize business processes.

In this episode, SD Times News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics and George Abraham, product leader at Infragistics. They talk about how AI will change the low-code ecosystem, how low-code vendors are starting to incorporate AI into their applications, and also what’s realistic to expect today.

This episode was sponsored by Infragistics. Infragistics offers hundreds of components for developers that are designed for a number of different areas, like design, UX, business intelligence, productivity, and more. Their low-code tool, App Builder, allows you to quickly design and develop applications using a drag and drop interface. To learn more, visit their website: https://www.infragistics.com/ 

In this episode, News Editor Jenna Barron spoke with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, about Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). 

He talks about why the CRA would be bad for open source development.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein a host of topics from quality stream management to the rise of AI and what that means for jobs. 

His guest is Jonathon Wright, the chief technologist at testing company Keysight Eggplant. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about value stream intelligence with his guest, Adam Dahlgren, COO at AllStacks, the value stream intelligence company.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about the Automated Software Testing and Quality (ASTQ) Summit taking place on May 16, 2023 together with Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at Parasoft.

Additional details about the event presented by Parasoft are available here. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about why generative AI apps and integrations without guardrails risk exposing data to the internet. 

Our guest is Dale Zabriskie also known as Dr. Z,  Field CISO at Cohesity. 

In this episode, Katie Dee, online and social media editor at SD Times, speaks with Kalani Leifer about the spike of layoffs that has been plaguing the tech industry. 

In this episode, news editor Jenna Sargent Barron interviews Christina Forney, VP of product at Uplevel, about what it means to have values alignment with your development team. We talk about how to find a role with a team or company whose values align with your own, what to do if you find yourself in a situation where that's not the case, and what impact the current job market has on this idea. 

In today's episode Katie Dee, online and social media editor for SD Times, is going to be speaking with Bret Greenstein, data and analytics partner at PwC, about generative AI and how to properly train developers to get the most out of the technology.

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about the evolution of database tech. 

His guest is Adam Prout, co-founder, and CTO behind SingleStore, previously known as MemSQL. 

This episode is about the latest advancements in authentication and also where the field needs some work. 

Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz speaks to Chris Niggel, the regional chief security officer of the Americas at Okta. 

In this episode, news editor Jenna Sargent Barron spoke to Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, about how integrations between different technologies and devices totally changed how he manages Type I diabetes.  He also shared other use cases he's seeing currently and how it's changing the world. 

In this episode, News Editor Jenna Sargent Barron continues her conversation with Anupam Datta, co-founder, president, and chief scientist at TruEra, an AI testing company. He explains what goes into testing generative AI models, the impact and use cases for solutions like ChatGPT, and issues of bias and fairness in AI models.

In this episode, News Editor Jenna Sargent Barron speaks with Anupam Datta, co-founder, president, and chief scientist at TruEra, an AI testing company. He explains what goes into testing generative AI models, the impact and use cases for solutions like ChatGPT, and issues of bias and fairness in AI models.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the driving forces for organizations to increase their open-source software usage and the biggest open-source trends today. 

Here is our conversation with Javier Perez, chief Open Source evangelist and senior director of product management at Perforce Software and he talks about the findings from the 2023 State of Open Source report by OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative. 

In the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast this week, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses clean code and how to achieve it.

His guest is Olivier Gaudin, the CEO and co-founder of SonarSource,  which was created to help developers achieve clean code with an open-source solution. 

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz explores what companies and developers need to do to develop open-source software (OSS) and how an organization can work with a community of developers.

His guest is Adi Gelvan, the CEO and co-founder of Speedb,  the company behind the Speedb Storage Engine. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about the rise in data streaming and how your organization to handle it.

His guest is Michael Drogalis, the principal technologist at Confluent, a company that provides a complete set of tools needed to connect and process data streams. 

In the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast this week, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses how Atlassian looks at value stream management (VSM) and how it offers companies a great way to get their VSM in order through their JIRA Align product. 

Joining him is Natalia Baryshnikova, the VP of Product and General Manager of Atlassian's Enterprise Agility business unit.

In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor at SD Times Jakub Lewkowicz talks about how to track your business’s cybersecurity preparedness and where to get started with improvements. 

His guest is Dave Sampson, vice president of consulting services and cybersecurity expert at Thrive, a nextgen, managed MSP and MSSP cyber services provider. 

In this episode, news editor Jenna Sargent Barron speaks to Chris Monroe, co-founder and chief scientist at IonQ. They talk about the current state of quantum, explain what hybrid quantum is, and discuss what's exciting about the future of this technology. 

In today's episode we’re going to be talking about a new visual network map where teams can see the services running in their cluster and how developers can utilize eBPF. 

The tool Caretta was launched by groundcover, a K8s application monitoring solution that pushes eBPF. Our guest is Shahar Azulay, co-founder and CEO of groundcover. 

In this episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast this week, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein spoke to Chris Gardner, VP research director at Forrester, to find out what are the top 5 trends that companies should be looking out for in the new year. 

From low-code to VSM, there's a lot to uncover in this jam-packed episode that concludes our podcast run this year. 

In this episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast this week, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the evolving role of the site reliability engineer (otherwise known as the SRE) within organizations.
 
His guest is Narayanan Raghavan, senior director of site reliability engineering of OpenShift at Red Hat.

In this podcast episode, we talk about some of the problems that DBAs face and how a major update to SQL Monitor is positioned to help with some of those problems.

The guest is Jeff Foster, Redgate’s Head of Product Engineering.

In today's episode, Katie Dee, online and social media editor at SD Times speaks with Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, about the results of the 2022 JamStack Community Survey and what it revealed about current trends among developers.

In a special extra episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast this week, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses how companies can set up permissions within their application. 
 
His guest is Oded Ben David, First Developer and application team leader at Permit.io. The company specializes in powerful access controls made simple with low code.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses bias creep in algorithmic systems and a recently released statement for responsible algorithmic systems. 
 
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is director of research at the AI Institute at Northeastern University's Palo Alto, Calif., campus. Jeanna Matthews is a professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.,Y., who works with the ACM's Technology Policy Council. They are co-authors of the report.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the scope of projects that are overseen by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kubernetes.
 
His guest is James McShane, engineering practice lead at SuperOrbital, which primarily deals with the Kubernetes space. 

In this episode, we discuss the future of technical hiring and how job simulations can help with the process. 

Our guest is Dan Finnigan, the CEO of Filtered, a technical hiring platform provider  that released Cloud Simulations where candidates can show off their abilities in areas like DevOps and cloud engineering with technical challenges.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses what is predictive AI and how DevOps teams can use it. 
 
His guest is Dr. Puneet Kohli,  vice president of engineering at Rocket Software. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the latest on value stream management
 
His guest is Dr. Mik Kersten who wrote the book on how value stream management can help software development teams gain insights into the flow of their work which details the Flow Framework.

Also, be sure to check out the DevOps Enterprise Summit starting 10/18!

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses FinOps and how to keep your cloud costs from spiraling out of control. 

His guest is J.R. Storment, the executive director of the FinOps Foundation. 

The FinOps Foundation will be taking part in KubeCon coming later this month. 

In this episode, Jenna Sargent Barron, news editor of SD Times, interviews Mark Nunnikoven, distinguished cloud strategist at Lacework. They discuss the relationship between citizen developers and security, supply chain attacks, and the OWASP Top 10 for low code.

Read Mark's original article referenced in this episode here: https://sdtimes.com/lowcode/do-low-code-no-code-platforms-pose-a-security-risk/ 

In this week's podcast episode, we talked about how data management emerged as a profound "unsung hero" during the COVID pandemic. 

This episode's guest is  Richard Young, Vice President of Vault CDMS with Veeva Systems. 

In this podcast episode, we discussed why having good cybersecurity is not enough anymore and what businesses can do next to protect their data. 

Joining us is Taylor Hersom, founder and CEO of Eden Data, which provides scalable security teams for startups to talk about what it means to be cyber resilient. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about how overcomplicating development can potentially lead to developer burnout and about how it’s important to have a product roadmap to succeed. 

Today's guest is Andy Boyle, engineering manager at Clockwise, a time management tool for teams. 

In today's podcast episode, we discuss when to use low code, no code, or your own code to build your applications.

Our guest is Ed Thompson, CTO at Matillion, a data transformation solution and ELT-first platform provider. 

In this episode, John Brawner, director of support and lead sales engineer at PreEmptive, explains what obfuscation is, how it works, and the value it can provide your organization.

This episode was sponsored by PreEmptive. To learn more visit: https://www.preemptive.com/ 

In today's episode, Online and Social Media Editor at SD Times, Katie Dee, speaks with Chris Niggel, regional CSO, Americas, at Okta, inc. about the increased adoption of Zero Trust security practices. They also discuss the findings of Okta's State of Zero Trust Security 2022 report.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses how organizations can retain top talent and align top-level objectives for all teams. 

His guest is Shailesh Kumar, the senior vice president and head of technology at ClickUp, a project management tool provider.

 In this episode, we speak with Tobi Knaup, CEO and founder of D2iQ, about how development teams can plan for cut budgets and what developers should know. 

In today’s episode, David Whelan, founder and CEO of Engage XR Holdings PLC, talks about the future of the Metaverse and the ways in which it may affect the workforce. He dives into the specifics of what industries may stand to gain the most and which ones may end up suffering from this transition, as well as how the Metaverse can thrive in combination with the remote working world we currently live in.

In this week's episode, we spoke with Gabe Monroy, chief product officer at DigitalOcean, about how developers can fall into the trap of over-engineering their products and how to avoid this. He gives tips on how to find a balance between adopting new technology and delivering value to the customer. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses what value stream management means to developers and whether they should care. 

His guest is Lance Knight,  president and COO of ConnectALL. 

This episode covers what makes a great customer experience (CX) in the digital realm. 

The guest is Mehdi Daoudi,  CEO and co-founder of Catchpoint.

This podcast episode covers why high-growth companies should be doubling down in the upcoming economic downturn. 

Joining us is Srikrishnan Ganesan, CEO and co-founder of Rocketlane, a company that in March developed the Maturity Model, which enables businesses to gauge their company's maturity level in terms of customer onboarding. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about the orchestration of Hybrid IT and Business process execution, and about how people are using HCL’s Workload Automation v.10. 

 With me today is Alexandra Thurel, global director in product management at HCL Software and she specializes in automation and mainframe product offerings.

Today's podcast episode discusses how to prevent data breaches with Kiuwan, the application testing and analysis solution. This application security platform works with over 30 technologies and plugs directly in a developer's IDE. 

Joining us is Daniel Fonseca, the Lead Sales engineer for Kiuwan, who has worked closely with many different teams worldwide to help them achieve high-quality, and securely developed applications. 

In this episode sponsored by Komodor, we discuss why it's so difficult to troubleshoot Kubernetes, how Komodor can make it easier, and the trends in the Kubernetes space seen at the most recent KubeCon EU.

Our guest is Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about how startups can address top developer challenges to build faster development and deployment cycles.

Our guest is Amir Rozenberg, Vice president of Product at Quali. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses how to keep remote developers engaged and prevent burnout. 

His guest is Jennifer Dennard, co-founder at Range. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses whether there is a shortage of developers or whether it comes down to whether developers are trained right. 

His guest is Jason Lengstorf,  vice president of developer experience at Netlify. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses supply chain security. His guest is Guy Eisenkot, senior director of product management at Palo Alto Networks and was a co-founder of Bridgecrew. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses zero-trust security. His guest is Clint Dovholuk , zero-trust evangelist and developer at NetFoundry. 

In this episode sponsored by Taos, the company's CEO Hamilton Yu explains what sets Taos apart, what hybrid cloud managed service is, and how it might fit into your business.

Register now for the live webinar The Pros and Cons of Hybrid Cloud happening at 12PM ET | 9AM PT on May 3rd!

In this week's podcast episode, we talked about Web3’s fundamental improvements to data portability and user authentication enable new experiences.

Joining us is Reed-McGinley Stempel, CEO and co-founder of Stytch, an authentication platform for developers.

This week's podcast episode started off with being about Infrastructure-as-Code, but also covers developer burnout, how far left can shift-left go and the communication between developers and IT. 

SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein's guest is Ronak Rahman, the head of developer relations at Quali.  

In this episode Mike Donovan, VP of Product for Sauce Labs’ Test Automation solution, explains his predictions for the future of test automation, as well as the role low-code tooling will play.

Check out the videos from our Low-Code/No-Code Developer Day.

This Special Edition of "What the Dev" leading up to Low-Code/No Code-Developer Day on April 13th, covers continuous transformation and how organizations can stay on top of the changes that are happening in our IT world.

SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein's guest is André Christ, CEO and co-founder of LeanIX. 

This Special Edition of "What the Dev" leading up to Low Code/No Code Developer Day on April 13th covers no-code and low-code orchestration for software delivery. 

SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein's guest is Chandra Ranganathan, the co-founder and CEO of Opsera, a continuous orchestration platform for next generation DevOps. 

This Special Edition of "What the Dev" leading up to Low Code/No Code Developer Day on April 13th, covers recent evolutions in the low-code market.

SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein's guest is  Jason Beres, the senior vice president of developer tools at Infragistics. 

In this episode, Dana Lawson, senior vice president of engineering at Netlify, speaks about her experience as a female working in the male dominated field of software engineering. She also discussed ways in which organizations can work to make the software development and engineering space a more welcoming place for everyone, regardless of how they identify.

In this episode, we talk  about how the weaknesses in companies' data transformation layer are becoming apparent when they move to the cloud, This is where automating data transformations is a vital step in overcoming transformation bottlenecks. 

Joining us  is Armon Petrossian, CEO and co-founder of Coalesce, a data transformations provider.

In this week's episode, we spoke with  Alessya Visnjic, CEO of ML observability platform WhyLabs, about why machine learning models fail, and how developers can help prevent those failures. 

In this podcast episode, we'll be talking about how workload automation is an important step in an organization’s DevOps journey, enabling practitioners to schedule and execute business process workflows and other jobs. 

We’ll also cover how HCL Workload Automation (HWA) which will be launched on March 4th can leverage historical workload execution data with AI to expose observable data and provide an enhanced operational experience.

Joining us is Marco Cardelli, HWA lead product manager and  Francesca Curzi, HCL software global sales leader for workload automation, mainframe, and data platform. 

Tensions are ratcheting up incredibly quickly in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with many reports of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian banks and other entities have been struck by a DDoS attack. 

Joining me to talk about the cyber threat landscape that this poses and what companies can do to watch out is Ross Rustici, managing director of cybersecurity at StoneTurn. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses dynamic observability, which can help with monitoring systems in terms of analyzing data and collecting the metrics you need for when you need them.   

His guest is Liran Haimovitch, the co-founder and CTO of the observability company Rookout and the host of the podcast The Production First Mindset.

In this podcast episode we discuss the latest in Internet of Things market trends together with Fred Rivard, the CEO and founder of MicroEJ and Jeb Su, the principal analyst at Atherton Research. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the challenges and benefits of edge computing and the Internet of Things

His guest is Jason Andersen, the vice president of strategy at Stratus Technologies, one of the early players in edge computing. 

The labor shortage impacting several industries is also affecting IT. Our guest this week is Josep Prat, open-source engineering manager at Aiven. He talks about the impact on developers and the steps companies can take to retain employees.

In this podcast episode, we talked about what is causing the current semiconductor shortage and what can companies do to improve the development and production of embedded devices.

Joining us is Marko Kaasila, SVP of Product Management of Qt, a platform for creating graphical user interfaces and cross-platform applications. 

Today’s leading tech companies believe that controlling the doors into the “metaverse” and virtual reality could be the centerpiece of a new business. We’ll be talking about how VR can help power this revolution and how will it work. Joining us is Dijam Panigrahi, co-founder and COO of Grid Raster Inc. 

In this episode, we spoke with Steve Reinhardt, VP of product at QCI, about some of the recent advancements in quantum computing and what the state of things currently is. 

In this podcast episode, we talked about the Apache Log4j vulnerability exploit that is striking fear into the software world and what can be done to remediate it. Joining us is Kristin Hazelwood, Vice President and General Manager of HCL’s BigFix product. 

Our guest this week is Eran Khanna, CEO of Archera. He shares information about what developer should know when it comes to cloud computing costs, including what happens when a developer accidentally racks up a large bill. 

In today's podcast episode, we talk about the challenges that organizations are facing with a new Trojan Source threat that affects software compilers and places all new programs at risk. We’ll also cover what can be done to counter this type of threat. Joining us is Vince Arneja, Chief Product Officer at code testing provider GrammaTech. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses zero-trust security.  His guest is Scott Rose, a computer scientist at NIST, working on security specifications.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses Atlassian's move of Bitbucket Cloud to the AWS Cloud. His guests are Robert Krohn, Head Of Engineering, Agile & DevOps at Atlassian and Daniel Tao, Head of Engineering, Bitbucket Cloud at Atlassian.

In this week's episode, Lei Zhang, head of developer experience at Bloomberg Engineering discusses the importance of Dev X and why he believes it should be approached by organizations as a company wide effort rather than having it fall on one specific team.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses why low code development is exploding in popularity. His guest is Jason Beres, of Infragistics, the SVP of Developer Tools at Infragistics.

In this week's episode, we spoke with Guillermo Rauch, CEO of frontend development company Vercel, and Sam Lambert, CEO at serverless database provider PlanetScale. Though these companies don't provide similar technologies, both believe together these technologies are at the heart of the future of the web. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. His guest is Steve Giguere, a developer advocate at Bridgecrew, a company that streamlines cloud security and enforces policies throughout the entire development lifecycle.

In this episode, we talked about the importance of prioritizing mental health awareness in developer and open source communities.

With us today is Josep Prat, a open source engineering manager at cloud technology company Aiven. Josep also heads up Aiven's open source program office.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses Kubernetes and the new workflow capability that has been launched for the Kubernetes-native troubleshooting company Komodor's solution. His guest is Itiel Schwartz, the CTO and co-founder of Komodor.

Be sure to sign up for KubeCon happening now through the 15th!

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses a new debugging experience for Kubernetes from the company Rookout. His guest is Liran Haimovitch, the cofounder and CTO of Rookout.

Also, be sure to sign up for KubeCon coming up next week on October 11-15th!

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the acquisition of observability company Lightstep by ServiceNow and what that means for the observability and SRE space. 

His guest is Austin Parker, lead developer advocate at Lightstep who will also be talking about the OpenTelemetry project. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the company Olive, which offers a platform and a development kit for people to create apps in the healthcare vertical space.

His guests are Patrick Jones, executive vice president of partnerships at Olive, and Robin Lai, senior product manager at Olive.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses issues that surround application security including attack surface management and application inventory. His guest is Dennis Hurst, the president, and co-founder at Saltworks Security. 

Developer productivity is important to many companies, and they invest heavily into it, by establishing programs to track metrics. But does tracking those things actually improve productivity? In this episode, Yves Junqueira, CEO of YourBase shares why productivity can’t be boiled down to a single metric and why if you focus too much on the numbers, you could lose sight of what’s actually important.

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses DevOps and why we might still be in its early days. His guest is Steve Kearns, the vice president of product management at Elastic. 

In this week's episode of the SD Times 'What the Dev' podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses incident response and where it fits in in the complex applications and infrastructures being created today. His guest is John Egan, co-founder and CEO at Kintaba.

As organizations have shifted to a mobile-first approach, they've found that the main challenge is testing for the sheer variety of devices out there.

With me today to talk about the challenges of mobile testing is Nadya Knysh, the Managing Director at a1qa, North America. a1qa is a company that provides full-cycle QA and quality engineering and ensures high software quality.

 In this week's episode, we talked about the ramifications of the recent Climate Report by the United Nations which declared the climate crisis as a code red for humanity. 

We spoke to Ali Fenn, the president of ITRenew, on the impact that the I.T. industry has on climate change.   

In this episode you’ll hear from Scott Johnson, senior director of product management at Synopsys, about how application security has evolved over the years, what security challenges developers face today, and the “must-haves” for rapid scanning solutions. Find out more about Synopsys' scanning solutions at synopsys.com.

Getting an open-source project hosted by a foundation can provide a lot of opportunities for growth, such as through increased marketing and awareness. In this episode we spoke with Torin Sandall, VP of Open Source at Styra, about the process of donating Open Policy Agent (OPA) to the CNCF and its journey up to its recent graduation. 

Today we’re going to be talking about recent advancements by Scrum.org  that include a new Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) training course and about  Evidence-Based Management (EBM) itself.

EBM is a framework that was created in 2014 as an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities,  and leading to positive business results.

With me to talk about EBM and the new course are Patricia Kong and Kurt Bittner who work in enterprise agility at Scrum.org 

In this week's podcast, we talk about the uptake in value stream, and the number of companies that now hang their hats on the topic. Listen in as we speak with Lance Knight, president and COO at ConnectALL, and a speaker at our VSMcon events. He highlights what he says is the number one thing a value stream platform needs to do.

 In this week's episode, we spoke about continuous delivery (CD), the premise of delivering safely when you want to.

So far, the number of companies adopting CD seems to be behind what was originally projected by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and the difficulty of getting started may be a culprit.

We spoke to Ravi Lachman, an evangelist at Harness, about the challenges as well as benefits of CD. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hupy, senior education program manager at GitLab about how DevOps is usually missing from computer science curriculums at universities, and what’s needed in order to provide an educational experience that prepare students for the development world."

With the Tokyo Olympics well underway, many cybersecurity insiders are still on high alert that the event could still face an onslaught of cyberattacks.

 In this podcast episode, we covered why the event is such a big target for hackers, what the threat landscape looks like, what defenses should be in place, and more together with Lisa Plaggemier, the interim executive director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA),  a nonprofit, public-private partnership promoting cybersecurity and privacy education and awareness. 

In this week's episode, we spoke about what ModelOps is and what it's ideal for. Joining us is Seth Clark, the co-founder and head of product at Modzy, a software platform for organizations and developers to responsibly deploy, manage, and get value from AI at scale.

In this week's episode we spoke about the recent outages that we've seen around the industry and how organizations can use defensive programming to prevent these software bugs from crashing applications.

Joining us is James Smith, the senior vice president of products for the Bugsnag group at SmartBear.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Mike Tria, head of platform engineering at Atlassian, to discuss how automation can help with management aspects of microservices as well as things to avoid when getting started with microservices.

Weaveworks CTO Cornelia Davis joins us to talk about the idea of GitOps, what it is, why it is becoming so popular, what are the benefits and how do you go beyond the basic tools and practices.

Weaveworks recently released a GitOps Maturity Model that helps organizations evaluate where they are on their journey to continuous delivery with GitOps.  

In today's podcast episode, we talk about  Quarkus, a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that was created to help Java developers work in a more cloud-native world.

The 2.0 release is scheduled for later this month and with us to talk about it is Rich Sharples, senior director of product management at Red Hat. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about how organizations need to apply the same principles of CI/CD to documentation to keep developers up to speed and to help out with onboarding. As business value evolves the SDLC at an ever-increasing pace, the developers that write certain code simply don’t have the time to create high-quality documentation with their current tools.

Our guest this week is Omer Rosenbaum, the CTO at Swimm and the author of the newly released Continuous Documentation Manifesto.

In today's podcast episode, we talked about what is the best place to put your open-source project: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) or the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and what really are the differences between the two. 

Here to talk with us today is Randy Abernethy, a managing partner at RX-M, a cloud-native training and consulting firm. 

In today's podcast episode, we talked about the future of in-person conferences and training (something that the software industry relied on heavily before the pandemic).  During the pandemic, much was to be learned from the massive growth of online conferences which allowed for more attendees and this will shape how in-person conferences happen moving forward. 

Joining us is Allie Magyar, the founder and CEO of the company Hubb that helps conference and meeting professionals plan and manage their onsite and online events from start to finish. 

In today's episode, we talk about text summarization which uses natural language processing to take a bunch of text and narrow it down to a key summary.

To find out more about how the models work and what use cases they're best for, we have Dr. Alex Fabbri, who has led research into text summarization at Yale University and previously interned at Facebook AI and AWS AI. 

In this episode, we talk to Julia Reinhardt, a Mozilla fellow as well as an expert in AI governance and privacy, about the European Union's proposed legislation on AI regulation. Reinhardt talks about the details of the legislation, what this will mean for US businesses and consumers, and other EU technology regulations on the horizon. 

This June, Google is going to release Core Web Vitals, which will capture performance data and boost SEO impact of an application if it meets a certain performance threshold. 

The 3 metrics that Google is focusing on are web loading performance, first input delay and layout stability. We talked about each of these components and more with Patrick Meenan, an engineering fellow at Catchpoint. 

In this week's episode we spoke with Luis Ceze, professor at the University of Washington, co-creator of the Apache TVM project, and co-founder and CEO of OctoML. He spoke about how open source projects like Apache TVM make AI and machine learning more accessible to developers, as well as the foundations that need to be in place to increase AI adoption. 

In this week's episode, we talk about the problem of data leakage, which occurs when data scientists feed data that did not exist during the time of a past event to machine learning models. 

Monte Zweben, CEO of Splice Machine talks about how feature stores can help with this issue by validating when a data set actually occurred and then correcting these point-in-time consistency issues.

We talk all things security with Jeff Williams, co-founder of OWASP and CTO and co-founder of Contrast Security. Williams talks about what went wrong with SolarWinds last year, how President Biden's administration is looking to address the ongoing cybersecurity issue, and Contrast's latest open-source security report. 

In this week’s podcast episode, we talk about The Digital Transformation Progress Report in which Digital.ai surveyed 600 IT pros to get a sense of where they are in their digital transformations.

We spoke to Derek Langone, the president of Digital.ai to find out more about the key takeaways from the report.

In this week's episode, we spoke with Don Jones, Head of Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about how developers can improve their skills through online learning options.

Pluralsight is also hosting #FreeApril and is making most of their skills platform available for free throughout the month of April. Visit pluralsight.com for more information. 

This week we talk to Emilia Breton, a mom of two and a Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach, about how she adopted an Agile mindset with her family to respond to the pandemic and adjust to the realities of work from home life. 

In today’s podcast, we talked about the use of open-source technology in DevSecOps and what the pros and cons of implementing it in security strategies are with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx.

Also, be sure to listen to our other podcast episode where Stephen Gates provides great insights on All about KICS, the open source solution for static code analysis of Infrastructure as Code - Episode 92

In this week's episode, we spoke with Charles Caldwell, VP of Product Management at Logi Analytics, about embedded analytics, how companies can use it to gain more insights, and some example use cases. 

In this episode, we talked about how organizations can assess their DevOps efforts together with Jayne Groll, the CEO of the DevOps Institute, which recently rolled out a crowd-sourced assessment of DevOps  capabilities. 

As DevOps has become an enterprise objective and an enterprise program, the ability to understand the capabilities of the team and the entire enterprise was essential to understand where you are, where you're going and have you gotten there.  

In today’s podcast, we talked about KICS, which is an open-source project for securing infrastructure as code together with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx, the company driving the effort. We talk about why infrastructure as code has seen a tremendous rise and about the origins of the KICS project. 

Today’s episode is on security in a hybrid remote world about what the threat landscape looks like today and how organizations are positioning themselves to deal with it. To talk about the matter, we have Rey Bango, a developer and security advocate at Veracode. 

In today’s podcast episode we’ll be covering passwordless and username-less authentication can increase security by reducing the risks of phishing and all forms of username and pass word theft and to provide for a more frictionless authentication experience. To learn more, we spoke to Ben Goodman, a CISSP and SVP at ForgeRock. 

This week we spoke to Barak Schoster Goihman, the CTO and co-founder of Bridgecrew, a company in the DevSecOps space,  to talk about their solution that helps developers catch issues in code as they’re in their IDEs.   

The CEO of Myplanet Jason Cottrell joins us to talk about  AI-powered interactions, chatbots vs. voice-based technologies, society's perception of AI, and how developers can build these interactions with consumers in mind. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Dr. Aaron Cheng, the Vice President of Data Science at dotData, to talk about how adopting or evaluating AI versus actually benefitting from it can be far different challenges and what are the key things that can make AI adoption at organizations successful. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with DigitalOcean VP Raman Sharma about how the open source community has evolved over the past year. We discussed DigitalOcean's recent Currents report and talked about open source involvement, compensation, and inclusivity.  

In this week’s podcast episode, we spoke to Laura Santamaria, a developer advocate at LogDNA, to talk about the evolution of logging in the modern day. 

When people talk about logging they mainly talk about "how do I get my system working?" But, logging is really all about data streams and thinking about how data moves through an entire computing system and how it can be used for many different use cases.  

In this week's episode we spoke to Ben Sigelman, the CEO and co-founder of Lightstep, a company that recently released Change Intelligence, which is a solution that analyzes system-wide metrics and tracing data. 

We covered how ML and AI doesn't do well with operational data unless there is some kind of objective or function that it can be applied to and how Change Intelligence is built to address that problem. 

Maxwell Flitton, the author of the upcoming book Rust Web Programming joins us to talk about why developers should use Rust in their web development efforts, and the tools being made available for web programming with Rust.

The hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language will be available on March 9, 2021. Listeners can pre-order the book here, or if you order by February 20th, use this link to get a 25% discount.

In this week's episode, we spoke about the resurgence of enterprise architecture as a lot of companies are looking to put an emphasis on business outcomes. Joining us this week is Tom O'Reilly, the COO at Sparx Systems. 

In this episode, quantum evangelist for Cambridge Quantum Computing Mark Jackson joins us to talk about recent advancements in the space, the impact this will have on software development, and what's still to come for quantum computing 

40% experience network brownouts at least several times a week, while one in five organizations experience them on a daily basis, new research from Accedian shows.

That's why we talked to Mike Canney, the director of business development in North America, Accedian, about how these network brownouts affect businesses that mostly work remotely, what's causing them, and ways to fix the problem. 

In this week’s episode,  we spoke about the differences between what people have traditionally called application performance monitoring and observability with Bill Staples, president and chief product officer at the observability platform provider New Relic.

Gaining more granular visibility into applications has really become critical in today’s complex application environments where performance monitoring has proved to not be enough. 

On the last episode of 2020, Dinesh Nirmal, IBM's newly minted general manager of IBM cloud integration, joins us to talk about how to migrate successfully to the hybrid cloud, and IBM's ongoing cloud efforts. 

In today's episode, we spoke to John Egan, the cofounder and CEO of the incident management company Kintaba about the difference between incident management and observability/application monitoring. 

Kintaba's solution helps companies automate their decision-making processes during security or performance incidents, or outages.

In this podcast we talked to Sergey Shkredov, the team lead for JetBrains's new integrated team environment Space, about how team collaboration has had to evolve with the ongoing pandemic, and the public launch JetBrains new solution. 

In this episode, we spoke to Shriram Ramanathan, the director of research at Lux research to talk about some of the biggest trends in technology the post-COVID world and the role of developers in all of this. 

Digital transformation will impact many key sectors such as telemedicine and we’ll be seeing an upward trend in robotics due to the need for infection prevention and improving resiliency.

In this podcast episode, we spoke with Vibhor Kapoor, the senior director of Adobe Document Services about how Adobe is currently working to reimagine the customer experience surrounding PDFs as well as the new APIs that make this possible.

These advancements include making the reading experience feel more native for all kinds of screens and devices used today using machine learning. Adobe is also focusing on reimagining PDF for developers so that they can build modern experiences. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Preety Kumar, CEO of Deque Systems about the steps developers should be taking to make their products accessible to all users. 

Check out the resources referenced in this episode:

Agile Accessibility Handbook

Deque System's accessibility Slack

Accessibility browser extensions

Axe Con

In today’s podcast episode, we spoke about the importance of the developer role in making sure that applications are secure with Chris Campbell and Juan Mazo of Veracode.

Be sure to check out the upcoming webinar How to get developers hooked on security on Wednesday, December 2 ,2020 | 1:00 PM ET | 10:00 AM PT.

Lorne Kligerman, director of product for the software reliability company Gremlin, joined the podcast to talk about the state of chaos engineering, why it's important now than ever, how to be successful at it, and new Kubernetes features from the platform.

Be sure to tune into the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 event that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities from November 17 – 20, 2020. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower from the observability company Lightstep about the importance of observability into Kubernetes. Observability is really about understanding changes and the effects of those changes on  your application.

We also covered where the future of monitoring is going with more organizations embracing OpenTelemetry.

Be sure to tune into the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 event that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities from November 17 – 20, 2020. 

In today’s episode of What the Dev? we’re going to be talking about how to empower developers in the SaaS decision-making process at their organizations. 

A recent report by Auth0 found that companies that implement more SaaS components innovate faster than those that don’t; and those that do innovate faster are relying more heavily on developer teams for input in SaaS purchasing decisions.

Joining me today is Jarod Reyes, who is the Director of Developer Marketing at Auth0 where he works to empower developers to innovate while securing their apps with Auth0. Prior to joining Auth0, Jarod most recently served as a Manager for the Developer Evangelism Team at Twilio and a Senior Front End Developer at Voxy.

COVID-19 has driven a significant demand on real-time data analysis in cloud and edge environments but organizations are severely limited in their ability to achieve real-time analysis with AI, due to the current size and speed of deep neural networks.

 Dr. Eli David, a pioneering researcher in deep learning and neural networks and co-founder of DeepCube, has been working on solving this exact problem and believes the answer lies in rethinking the way we train deep learning models to more closely mirror the human brain’s early childhood development.

In this episode, OutSystems' Forsyth Alexander joins us to talk about how AI can be used in development tooling to make things easier for developers. 

Listen to OutSystems new podcast Decoded to hear from real developers about their career journeys. 

In this episode we spoke with Jen Akullian, psychologist and co-founder of Growth Coaching Institute about burnout in tech. She explained some of the coping strategies that people can use to alleviate burnout, what signs to look for, and how management can help their employees. 

Here are some resources we spoke about in the episode, as well as a talk Jen gave at KubeCon EU on the topic: 

OSMI (Open Sourcing Mental Illness)

KubeCon Europe: Mental Health & Stress in Technology

Web 3.0 has been on the horizon for a couple of years, but what is it and what does it mean to developers? In this episode, we talk to Corey Petty, head of security for Status, about the changes developers should expect and how to educate end users. 

In today's special edition of What the Dev(Ops)?, we spoke to Adam Furtado,  Chief of Platform at Kessel Run, a U.S. Air Force digital transformation initiative revolutionizing how the Air Force builds and delivers software.

Adam led the growth at Kessel Run from a team of 5 to over 1400 in just over three years. He has been bringing a user-centered approach to DevOps into the world’s largest bureaucracy in an effort to solve some of the nation’s toughest challenges.

Check out some of the great presentation from the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit from last week! 

In this week's episode, Chris Hill, senior manager of developer platforms at T-Mobile, talks about the reality of virtual conferences, how T-Mobile has been adapting to the pandemic and remote working, and how his experience in different industry verticals has helped him prepare and improve DevOps at T-Mobile.

Check out Chris's talk as well as many more great presentations at the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit that ends today!

Joining us for today's special What the Dev(Ops) episode is lead value stream architect for Walmart Technology's DevOps Dojo Bryan Finster. Bryan goes over the DevOps journey at Walmart and at the Dojo as well as some best practices and lessons learned along the way.

Bryan will be talking more about Walmart's DevOps journey at the Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit on October 14th at 12:05pm PT/ 3:05pm ET.

In partnership with the DevOps Enterprise Summit, we spoke with Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, about how organizations can diagnose the health of their value stream.

This has become an especially important subject now as the pandemic has emphasized the need for quick and effective value stream management.

Kersten will be a keynote speaker on October 14th at the DevOps Enterprise Summit.

Be sure to sign up for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas between October 13th -15th for expert talks and three full days of immersive learning!

In today's episode, Matt Martin, the CEO of Clockwise shares his insights on the moves that actually increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, along with tips on how to best incorporate diversity training, engage leadership, and measure your progress.

We spoke to John Allspaw, the principal and founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, a consulting company that helps organizations deal with data incidents, to talk about the growing concept of resilience engineering.

In a nutshell, reverse engineering is concerned with adverse external events that can lead to system failure. It tests how much an organization can withstand stress and other challenging factors to continue performing its core functions and avoid loss of data.

Be sure to check out Allspaw's talk at the DevOps Enterprise Summit
Las Vegas on October 13th to learn more! 

In today's episode we spoke with Kevin Brennan, author of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, and Bob Galen, the president and principle agile coach at RGalen Consulting, about Agile and project management.

Peter Wang, CEO of Anaconda, talks about why data science is gaining so much attention lately, tools necessary for businesses to be successful, and how Python plays a role in all of it.

The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. We talk to Deb Goodkin, executive director of the foundation, about how the foundation got started and where it is going as well as some new resources for developers to take advantage of. 

In this week’s episode we’re speaking with Ensono’s VP of Product Management, Lin Classon (@lin_IRL), about how the representation of women speakers have improved over the years, what issues they face at in-person and in virtual conferences, and what work is still to be done.

2020 Speak Up report: https://www.ensono.com/resources/speak-2020-redesigning-tech-conferences-women-mind 

In this week's episode, we talked about the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT) that measures fairness in large-scale AI applications with Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Shriram Vasudevan and Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Cyrus Diciccio. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Sandeep Sood, the CEO of Kunai, about the growth of embedded finance and its potential for major disruption. Sood's take is "if you're not a fintech company today, you're going to become one." Listen in to find out why!

In this week's episode we talk to Steve Pereira, the founder and CEO of Visible, about the importance for value stream mapping, how to get started, how to take it beyond 101, and what to look out for along the way. You can also listen to Pereira's Virtual VSM DevCon talk on value stream mapping here, register for next year's Virtual VSM DevCon conference on March 10, 2021, or continue the conversation on our Slack community. 

In this week's podcast, we spoke to Steve Boone, the head of product management at HCL Software, about how companies are coming along in their value stream management journey. Are they adopting? What are some of the challenges they're facing? What are the benefits that they see?

Save the date! VSM DevCon is back on March 10th, 2021 to examine the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization! 

In this week's podcast episode, we spoke to Veracode's Patrick McNeil and Cody Bertram about how it's becoming more important to get developers up to speed on security in today's "shift-left" world.

For a deeper dive into developers' role in security, join this webinar on September 10th at 11am ET/8:00am PT.

In today’s episode we're speaking with Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab. We discuss the ongoing conflict between speed and quality when deploying applications. He also offers guidance on how developers can succeed at both without cutting corners. 

Here are links to resources we mentioned in this episode:

Guide to remote work

GitLab Commit

In this week's episode, we talk to Catchpoint CEO Mehdi Daoudi about the company's SRE report. He talks about the struggles SREs are facing at home, as well as the role automation plays in reducing toil for SREs. 

In this week's episode we covered the debate in the open source community regarding trademarks that started after Google announced the Open Usage Commons in the beginning of July, and IBM and CNCF brought up concerns that the use of new projects and products will be left up to the interpretation of certain players, such as Google. We spoke with Heikki Nousiainen the CTO at Aiven, to find out more..

Roman Stanek, CEO of GoodData, talks about the benefits of using freemium software, the skills required to use the free version, and how IT teams should approach freemium software options. 

In this bonus podcast we talk to experts about how to successfully manage value streams, how to use value stream management to elevate Agile and DevOps practices, and what's still to come. To learn more visit https://events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon. 

This week, we spoke to Eric Schabell, the portfolio architect director at Red Hat, about Agile integration. A lot of enterprises are moving in the direction of Agile teams all with an eye on the digital transformation story where they're headed towards delivering things in a cloud native fashion. You'll hear some of the best ways in which to achieve that Agile integration. 

In this week's episode we talk to the co-founders of Netlify, a modern web development platform provider that coined the term Jamstack. Jamstack is a new rising development and architectural approach that comes with the promise of delivering a faster, more accessible, more maintainable and globally available web. 

Today’s episode is about how monetization can help make open source software more secure The anonymity of the original open source coder today means that no one is properly equipped to set up the appropriate security protocols on software utilizing the code. We spoke with Chen Ravid, the the cofounder and head of product at xs: code, to find out how developers can be incentivized to return to projects and improve security. 

In this week’s episode, we spoke to Fletcher Heisler, the director of developer enablement at Veracode about security and working from home during the pandemic and beyond. Also we talk about how developers are taking on a more active approach to security, making it a shared responsibility in organizations. 

In this bonus episode we talk to Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, authors of the book Agile Conversations. The authors talk about five conversations teams need to have in order to build trust, alleviate fear, and reach peak performance. You can learn more from Squirrel and Fredrick at this month's Virtual VSM DevCon. Visit events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon to register today. 

With CCPA enforcement starting, privacy should be top of mind for most companies. Fastly's VP of data governance Lisa Phillips joins us to discuss the practice of data privacy by design, and lessons learned from implementing it. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Vince Molinaro, a strategic leadership expert and author, about how communication is now more important than ever between leaders and their teams since many software development jobs are staying remote even as businesses in some areas are starting to open up.

Vice President of Sonatype Derek Weeks returns to the podcast to discuss the DevSecOps Community survey, what changes have happened in the open source and security space since we last spoke, and the state of software quality.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Optimzely CTO about feature experimentation how Optimizely has been striving to make A/B testing easier for teams that are most amenable to quick experimentation. 

In this week's episode we speak with Sarah Elk, one of the co-authors of the recently published books "Doing Agile Right." We discuss the measures that need to be in place in order for teams to adopt Agile successfully and what some common misconceptions are. 

In this week's episode, we talked about why serverless architectures are seeing rapid adoption and about how it is constantly taking on new use cases with Austen Collins, the CEO and Founder of Serverless, Inc. 

In this week's episode we talk to Scott Hanselman about the latest developer tools Microsoft has been working on, like Codespaces, WSL2, and the Windows Terminal. He also talks about transitioning Microsoft Build to an online format and what kind of experience Microsoft wants to offer. 

In today’s episode we talk with Serkan Piantino, founder and CEO of Spell, a company that is working on democratizing AI. As an early pioneer in the AI space, he shares the changes he’s seen in the AI space over the years. We also discuss why there’s a need for AI to be democratized, what needs to be in place for that to happen, and what the future of AI looks like.

As organizations adopt a more product-oriented mindset, the product owner is becoming more important. In Scrum, product owners work to maximize the value of a product by working with the development team. But, in order to do this there must be trust between the development team and the product owner. In this podcast, CEO of Scrum.org Dave West talks about the role of product owners and how they can successfully work with the development team and business. 

As Python 2 reaches its end of life, we talk to Jeff Rouse, vice president of product at ActiveState about what this means for organizations and how they can successfully move to Python 3.

In this week's episode we speak with Steve Stover, VP of products and strategy at SolarWinds. Steve talks about how in 2019, VC firms switched their focus from consumer tech to enterprise tech. Companies leveraging AI in enterprise products will see a lot of opportunities for funding. Please note, this episode was recorded prior to the current economic downturn caused by coronavirus and these insights were based on data from January.  

Companies are increasingly expecting more reliant analysis from their data and that data that's coming in is only expected to grow at a rapid pace. In order to capitalize on streaming data as well as scale to meet growing business demands, organizations are looking more towards continuous SQL to simplify and accelerate that process. In this week's episode, we spoke with Kenny Gorman the cofounder and CEO of Eventador which offers an enterprise-grade stream-processing-as-a-service platform. 

In this week's episode we talked to Jeff Williams, the cofounder and CTO of Contrast Security and the cofounder of OWASP, about the updated cybersecurity framework from the National Institute of Standards and T echnology. 

Open source software is the backbone of software development today, but it can be a large and complex area to navigate through. In this podcast we talk to VM (Vicky) Brasseur who wrote the book Forge Your Future with Open Source. Brasseur explains what open source means, what it entails and how you can contribute. 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may not sound like a web developer's problem, but there are a lot of things they can do with SEO that can improve the performance of their website. To learn more, we talked to Britney Muller, senior SEO scientist at SEO software provider Moz.

In this week's episode, we talk about robotic process automation (RPA) with Burley Kawasaki, the chief product officer at business process automation company K2, and Wayne Ariola, general manager at Tricentis RPA. 

In this week’s episode of What the Dev? we spoke to Caleb Queern, the Director of KPMG Cyber Security Services about the top 6 cyber considerations including:

• Preparing security teams for a rise in cloud-based threats
• Automating essential security tasks to reduce spend and drive a more effective program
• Building trust into consumer authentication while offering a friction-free experience
• Increasing security team business acumen to help evolve the team to being seen as a strategic, forward looking resource
• Bracing for more regulations across the board and who should help oversee the regulatory compliance program
• Aligning business goals with security needs to drive an effective security program

In this week's episode, we speak to the CEO of cloud provider Gravitational about the challenges of multi-cloud and what the benefits are. 

Kubernetes continues to grow year after year with many companies rethinking their current strategies to take advantage of its new use cases and capabilities. However, Kubernetes is not a silver bullet and companies should be careful about exactly how they re-strategize their Kubernetes efforts. In this episode, director at Canonical Stephan Fabel talks about the value of Kubernetes as well as some challenges still plaguing the project. 

SD Times is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. News Editor Christina Cardoza talks to Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein and Publisher David Lyman about how the industry has evolved over the last 20 years and where the magazine is going. 

MySpace was once a popular social networking platform that users flocked to connect with their friends and meet new users. We remember Tom, and we remember the painstaking hours trying to decide our "top 8," but we forget about the ability to express ourselves through customized code. In this podcast, we talk to former CTO of MySpace and now CEO of the Koji web development platform Dmitry Shapiro about how My Space accidentally spurred this idea of citizen developers, and if there will ever be another platform like that again. 

CollabNet VersionOne and XebiaLabs has announced a new mission: to build an integrated Agile DevOps platform together. The company's new CEO Ashok Reddy and president Derek Langone explain exactly what that means and what enterprises can expect from this merger. 

The popularity of edge computing has greatly increased as more industries are adopting IoT devices and are increasing their demand for low-latency processing and real-time, automated decision-making solutions. This week, we talked to Kuba Stolarski, Research Director at IDC, about what exactly is edge computing and where it's headed. 

Java is coming up on a big milestone: Its 25th anniversary! To celebrate, we take a look back over the last 25 years to see how Java has evolved over time. In this episode, Social Media and Online Editor Jenna Sargent talks to Rich Sharples, senior director of product management for middleware at Red Hat, to learn more.

On this episode of What the Dev, SD Times news editor Christina Cardoza talks to Chris Ferris, CTO of Open Technology at IBM, about how the Red Hat acquisition changed IBM's approach to open source, what makes a successful open-source project and what we can expect from the space in the future. 

In this week's podcast, Christina Cardoza talks to Chris Parlette, director of cloud solutions at ParkMyCloud. Parlette explains that serverless doesn't solve all of developer's problems, and goes through when to use serverless and when to stay away from it. 

In this year's final episode of What the Dev? before the holidays, we talk to data protection officer Sylvia Johnson about what consumers and companies need to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that goes into effect on January 1st. 

As always thank you for listening to What the Dev? and we can't wait to show you what's in store for the podcast in 2020. See you then!

In this week's episode, we talk to Kent Beck, the first signer of the Agile Manifesto and Software Fellow and Engineering Coach at Gusto, about the latest in Agile practices and about the best programmer test principles. 

As more and more businesses start to adopt a cloud-native strategy, SD Times News Editor Christina Cardoza talks to Red Hat's senior director of product strategy Brian Gracely about the state of cloud-native development, having a distributed mindset, and what other changes developers should be aware of. 

Despite years of fluctuating headset sales, the newly matured VR and AR technologies are making their way to enterprises. In this episode, we talk with Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen and DuYe Tadeen, a researcher from the University of Rochester about where the technologies are now.

Data is becoming more prevalent than ever. We talk to Jason Beres, Infragistics Senior Vice President of Developer Tools to find out how to navigate through troves of data to gain the best business outcomes. 

 In this week’s episode, we talk with Chris Richardson, creator of Eventuate and microservices.io, that when an organization thinks “the more microservices the better” it is establishing the wrong goal and can also lead to a very fine-grained architecture. The ultimate goal should be accelerating software delivery.

The holiday season is almost here, and for that reason, it's easy to drift off and go window shopping for gifts within the very screen that you're looking at all day as a developer. In this week's show, we talk to Sean Breiman, a developer at Softheon, about productivity techniques and how to tackle the biggest pain points when the days grow long and mental bandwidth dries out. 

In this episode of What the Dev(Ops), we talk about value stream management which is regarded by some as the most important tool for effective DevOps. We talk to Lance Knight from ConnectAll at The DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas on how to get the most out of Agile with value stream management. 

In our last episode coming out of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, we talk to Derek Weeks from Sonatype about how developers can work around the security vulnerabilities that come with open source code. Open source is in now more than ever, but how will DevSecOps provide developers with the peace of mind to use open source in their applications. 

Data isn't very useful if it's not accessible. And while it might be safer to restrict developers from having sensitive data, but it doesn't help them. We talk to Robert Reeves from Datical at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas about how to jump over the roadblocks keeping developers from using data to its full potential. 

Straight from the DevOps Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, this week's special edition of What the Dev(Ops) is about what skills the modern developers need to thrive in today's DevOps culture. We talk to Jayne Groll from the DevOps Institute about how the mindset of developers is as important for DevOps as the agility and the automation of processes

In the very first episode of What the Dev? created by the editorial team at SD Times, we are on the ground at the Strata Data Conference, we talk about the latest advancements in VR/AR technology and lay out the themes for our upcoming episodes.