Continuing our focus on women in tech, we discuss the multiple pathways to enter the tech industry, including coding, with our 3 guests, Elena Kolevska, a Senior Technical Enablement Architect at Redislabs, Helen Tabunshchyk, Director of ‘Women Who Code’ London, and Kristina Kushner, a Senior Project Manager at PMP. Coding’s gendered history Though it’s not the case anymore, coding used to be more friendly to women. Helen explains, “Until the mid-1980s, programming was most often a woman's job. ...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 59
Today we speak with three leaders and women in tech, Susan An, the Senior Sales Director of Tessian, Jessica Alderson, the Co-Founder & CEO of So Syncd, and Maria Antinkaapo, VP of Customer Success at Platform.sh, on the gender imbalance in tech, including the impact of internal and external biases. Fixing the disparity in tech requires a perspective shift The ratio of women to men in tech is often as unbalanced as 25:75. Susan is blunt, “We don't have enough female talent or leaders. Global...
Jan 20, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Our guests today, Jane Frankland, owner and CEO of KnewStart, Fareedah Shaheed, CEO and founder of Sekuva, and Eliza-May Austin, Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company, help us determine the state of the cybersecurity world today and how it can affect you. Defining cybersecurity All three guests admit the term “cybersecurity” is broad. Eliza May says,” Cybersecurity is broad for a reason; it has to encompass lots of different avenues of data; computer, network, phone, apps, and there is a social asp...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 57
EZContent is a Drupal distribution, decoupled framework, and publishing platform created by Srijan. It has many out-of-the-box reusable components for layout building and editing, including AI and machine learning features. We discuss EZContent with experienced Drupal folks, Ishan Mahajan, Kamalpreet Kaur, and Vinay KG. EZContent’s features address modern-day marketer’s needs As a CMS, EZContent has many features that make editors’, publishers’, and marketers’ lives easier, such as a drag-and-dr...
Jan 12, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 56
We speak with María Paula Fernández, Mattias Nystrom, and Stefan Adolf about the Golem Network, and the implications of creating a future internet based on distributed computing, with more focus on privacy. The Golem Network The Golem Network is an accessible, reliable, open access and censorship-resistant protocol, which democratizes access to digital resources and connects users through a flexible, open source platform. As María Paula Fernández defines it, “At the highest level, Golem is a pro...
Jan 12, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Calling APIs to retrieve data can be a difficult and messy process. Our two guests, Mark Stuart and Shruti Kapoor, are both engineers at PayPal who use GraphQL to bring order to their APIs and data. What is GraphQL GraphQL is a query language for your API, but as Shruti says, “A common myth people have about GraphQL is that we’re querying the database. But we’re not; we’re querying the API.” She adds, “GraphQL provides a way to call your API and get the data that you need.” Mark adds his own def...
Jan 11, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 54
As e-commerce has developed as an industry, the old guard e-commerce tools are phasing out to make way for new guard: headless e-commerce. Our two guests today, Product Marketing Manager at Strapi, Anastasiia Shpiliak, and Ryan Szrama, founder of Centarro, discuss the benefits of headless e-commerce and how to achieve it with Strapi and Centarro. Strapi + headless e-commerce Strapi is an open source, Node.js based, headless CMS with an e-commerce solution. Why headless? As Anastasiia explains, S...
Jan 11, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 53
OpenStack: scalable, automated cloud infrastructure We introduced OpenStack, powerful open source software that automates the management of hardware and infrastructure, in our 50th episode . Organizations like Sardina Systems use OpenStack to offer their clients scalable, pay-as-you-grow cloud infrastructure. Today we have two guests from Sardina Systems, Kenneth Tan and Mihaela Constantinescu, who manage OpenStack installations for their customers. Our other guest, Dr. Jens Krüger, uses Sardina...
Dec 02, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Three different paths to tech Elina Valeeva, CEO of Meditivity , Anna Radulovski, Founder of Coding Girls , and Claudia Mendes Silva, Project Manager for Siemens and an Ambassador of Portugal’s Women in Tech chapter , each came into the tech industry in their own ways. Claudia Mendes Silva and Elina Valeeva both met Ayumi Moore, the President and Founder of Women in Tech through their tech connections. When Elina met Ayumi at a tech conference, she says, “We had a really deep conversation about ...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 51
The Open Infrastructure Foundation Julia Kreger, Mark Collier, and Mohammed Naser are all part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), a nonprofit that builds communities around IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service. The OIF is vast and global — it spans 100,000 members across over 180 countries, and it focuses on projects in multiple areas, including: Edge computing Container Infrastructure Public/Private hybrid cloud AI and Machine Learning CI/CD The OIF origin story The Foundation traces its...
Nov 04, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Azul, the JVM, and the JDK Simon Ritter and Geertjan Wielenga are the brains behind Azul, a company focused on providing the best Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) possible. It’s also the biggest Java-only company in the world. As Simon says, “Azul is all about Java.” Azul has two products: Zing — A high-performance JVM. As Simon describes it, “Zing is where we've taken open JDK, we've taken Hotspot, replaced certain parts of it, and then make it into a high-performance v...
Nov 03, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Defining Fission Fission is an edge app publishing platform for front-end developers. As Boris Mann, one of its creators, defines it, “Fission is a stack of tools, identity files, and data storage that gives developers everything that's needed to run a full web app using only the front end.” Out of the box, Fission has some key benefits. Runs anywhere: server, phone, laptop, or a mixture Easy to deploy Automatic updates Identity security and authorization Fission offers great developer and user ...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Reducing risk when deploying code is a huge priority for many DevOps teams, and incidentally, the reason behind our podcast's name, Deploy Friday. Today, we speak with experts Jackie Balzer and Maryann Bell about best practices for risk reduction during code deployment. Defining code deployment Code deployment can depend on the scale of your organization. Maryann and Jackie both work at large companies (Adobe and Spotify, respectively), where deployment likely differs from an individual develope...
Oct 12, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 47
What is Jetty? Today, our guests share their extensive experience with Jetty. Greg Wilkins is the original software engineer for Jetty and Simone Bordet is a Jetty Committer. Jetty itself is an HTTP server and container for deploying Java servlets that run on HTTP, and it was also the first Java application server to be deployed as a clickable JAR file. Jetty started as a small open source project, and then moved to the Eclipse Foundation in 2009, where it still finds its home today. Greg adds, ...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 45
“97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know” is a book of collected wisdom by cloud engineering experts. Our two guests today, Michelle Brenner and Dan Moore, both contributed chapters, and we speak with them about the book and the state of cloud engineering in 2021. What is cloud engineering? With most companies having at least part of their infrastructure in the cloud, some form of cloud engineering knowledge is necessary. Dan says, “I would say that a cloud engineer is someone who works in th...
Sep 08, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Our guests today Rudy de Busscher, on the Payara Sales team, and Fabio Andres Turizo, a Payara Engineer, speak with us about the importance of standards, what Jakarta EE offers developers, and using Payara. Defining Payara Payara is a cloud-native, open source middleware platform that’s both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile compatible. It comes in two versions; community and enterprise. With the enterprise version, you get access to partners in the community, and very long-term support — 10 years! Pa...
Sep 08, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Today we’ll be talking about reactive programming, Quarkus and Mutiny with our experts, Clement Escoffier and Julien Ponge, both Principal Software Engineers at Red Hat. Why use reactive programming Reactive programming differs from the “traditional” imperative paradigm. Reactive is a programming approach that centers on events (and reacting to them!). It helps build robust, efficient, concurrent applications and systems, and it lets you handle more load while using resources more efficiently. A...
Aug 31, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Business automation has been used in other industries for years. Now it’s available for software development. Our Red Hat guests Karina Varela and Donato Marrazzo tell us how business automation can help bridge the gap between business and technical teams. What is business automation? According to Red Hat, “Business automation is the alignment of business process management (BPM) and business rules management (BRM) with modern application development to meet changing market demands.” Karina and ...
Aug 30, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Composer 2.0 Jordi Boggiano and Nils Aderman are the original authors of Composer, a near-universal package and dependency manager for PHP, and it just hit a major milestone: Composer 2.0. The two join us in this episode to give us the download on Composer 2 improvements and updates. But first, Nils helpfully defines Composer for us. “Composer is a package manager, or as we sometimes refer to it, a dependency manager. It’s responsible for installing and managing your project’s different versions...
Aug 28, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 40
What is the Platform.sh Partner Program For digital agencies, Platform.sh offers a number of incentives and benefits that make our service more attractive and your business more profitable. The team behind the Digital Agency Partner Program, and our guests today, explain how this partner program includes exclusive pricing, co-selling, and special features. Revamping the partner program We brought on Chantal Pastorek to revamp and relaunch the Platform.sh partner program. Now, as our Agency Partn...
Aug 23, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 39
The OpenideaL origin story OpenideaL is an ideas and innovation management software created by Linnovate. Based on Drupal, OpenideaL is the leading open source solution for running innovation and ideation campaigns through a community. Elroi, the CEO at Linnovate, explains the project’s origins started, interestingly enough, with the Israeli government, before pivoting to enterprises. “Enterprises realized that it’s a very good solution for them, and they adopted it, either to hear their consume...
Aug 12, 2021•47 min•Ep. 38
Bearer: good tidings for developers Pizzly is an open source, OAuth integration proxy created by Bearer. It handles dozens of pre-configured APIs like Asana, Basecamp, Salesforce, Slack, Google Sheets, and more, and lets you quickly add even more APIs with a generic JSON configuration schema. Says Guillaume, Co-Founder and CEO of Bearer, “Pizzly is all about being able to connect to APIs in very fast and simple ways.” How Pizzly does it Pizzly’s dashboard lets you enable and configure the APIs, ...
Aug 11, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Writing a TYPO3 Guidebook as a Collective Effort With upwards of 600 features, writing about a fully featured, open source CMS like TYPO3 can be a challenge. In this episode, Felicity Brand, Heather McNamee, and Jeffrey A. McGuire talk about how they co-authored a TYPO3 guidebook in concert with the TYPO3 community. The need for this guidebook As Jeffrey A. McGuire tells it, TYPO3 wanted a book for a diverse audience, ranging from developers, newbies, project analysts, students, educators, integ...
Aug 10, 2021•57 min•Ep. 36
Website maintenance is a common challenge, especially for agencies running dozens or even hundreds of sites. Platform.sh uses an internally-developed feature, Source Operations, to effectively manage its “fleets” of web applications. Defining a fleet Augustin Delaporte, Director of Enterprise and Fleets at Platform.sh, defines a fleet like this.“As soon as you start having more than one web application that you're managing, you’re running a fleet, basically. You're facing constraints, you're fac...
Aug 02, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 35
GraphQL is an open source, declarative language that you can use to source data from your APIs. In a backend landscape with disparate APIs that all need to be tied together, GraphQL is like a middle layer interface between them. Josh Oppenheim, a software engineer and one of our guests today, adds to this definition. “GraphQL allows you to declaratively say, ‘Hey, I want this data to look like this,’ and expect what you get back. So every time that call is made, it's always going to come back as...
Jul 29, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Introducing Oracle Helidon Helidon is an open source, microservice framework for writing applications. As our two Oracle guests today, Dmitry Kornilov and Dmitry Alexandrov explain, Helidon is named after the Greek symbol for a swallow, a bird that’s extremely fast and maneuverable; just like Helidon. Helidon helps developers with two “flavors” Helidon has two development experiences, which our guests like to call “flavors”: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. While both are extremely fast, there are dif...
Jul 28, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Elasticsearch: Easy, fast, and reliable Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine; it allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and near real-time. As one of our guests, Jay Miller says, Elasticsearch is “the original idea of making search easy, fast, reliable.” Today with Jay Miller and Ricardo Ferreira, we'll discuss the success cases, tips, why you should use a search engine in your project, and where the project is headed ...
Jul 01, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Guest Anjuan Simmons and host Robert Douglass explore the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experience in the tech world. Facing additional burdens As a Black manager and leader with 25 years of experience in the technologist space, Anjuan carries more burdens than most. He lists: Being many people’s first Black manager Being looked at as a “token hire” Dealing with stereotypes others have about Black people Anjuan sums it up, “Really, I have to do two jobs: the job I was hired to d...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 31
MySQL is an open source, multi-user, and multi-threaded database management system. What’s more, it’s still growing, as our guests, Airton Lastori and Dave Stokes, longtime users of MySQL, emphasize. We asked Airton and Dave about the newest, most exciting, and lesser-known features of MySQL. They responded enthusiastically. All quotes in this list from Dave Stokes. Recursive CTE: as Dave explains it, this is “...an easy, painless way to write subqueries. They’re easier to comprehend than standa...
Jun 18, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 30
We continue the Deploy Friday Language Spotlight series with the programming language Ruby. Our two guests, developers Emily Giurleo and Jason Charnes, talk about their love for Ruby and what to expect with the Ruby 3.0 release. The benefits of Ruby Ruby is a favorite to introduce newcomers to coding, along with Python and JavaScript. The father of the Ruby programming language, Yukihiro Maksumoto, likes to say, “Ruby sparks programming joy.” While he may be biased, Emily and Jason agree. “I thi...
Jun 17, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 29
