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What the Dev?

What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software and technology.

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Episodes

What's up next for low code - Episode 133

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.

Nov 02, 202117 min

The next wave of web development - Episode 132

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.

Oct 26, 202122 min

Securing cloud-native applications - Episode 131

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.

Oct 21, 202112 min

Prioritizing developer mental health - Episode 130

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.

Oct 19, 202115 min

Komodor's new workflow capability for Kubernetes - Episode 129

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!...

Oct 12, 202112 min

A new debugging experience for Kubernetes - Episode 128

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!

Oct 07, 202116 min

The acquisition of Lightstep and what it means for observability - Episode 127

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.

Oct 05, 202116 min

Building healthcare apps using Olive - Episode 126

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.

Sep 30, 202113 min

The two big issues that surround application security - Episode 125

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.

Sep 28, 202114 min

The best way to measure developer productivity - Episode 124

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.

Sep 23, 202119 min

DevOps and why it still might be in its early days - Episode 123

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.

Sep 21, 202116 min

How incident response helps with complex applications - Episode 122

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.

Sep 16, 202118 min

The challenges of mobile testing - Episode 121

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.

Sep 14, 202119 min

I.T.'s impact on climate change - Episode 120

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.

Sep 07, 202117 min

The evolution of application security scanning - Episode 119

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 .

Aug 31, 202129 min

Bringing Open Policy Agent through its graduation from the CNCF - Episode 118

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.

Aug 26, 202119 min

The latest on Scrum and EBM - Episode 117

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...

Aug 24, 202120 min

Traversing the value stream with ConnectALL's Lance Knight - Episode 116

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.

Aug 17, 202116 min

The challenges and benefits of continuous delivery - Episode 115

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.

Aug 10, 202115 min

The state of DevOps in CS education - Episode 114

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."

Aug 03, 202116 min

Cybersecurity and the Tokyo Olympics - Episode 113

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 pri...

Jul 27, 202115 min

What is ModelOps? - Episode 112

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.

Jul 20, 202114 min

Preventing outages with defensive programming - Episode 112

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.

Jul 13, 202117 min

GitOps: Beyond the Basics - Episode 109

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.

Jun 29, 202114 min

How Quarkus helps developers in a cloud-native world - Episode 108

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.

Jun 22, 202119 min

Continuous documentation pulls from the concepts of CI/CD - Episode 108

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...

Jun 15, 202121 min

ASF vs. CNCF and where your open-source project should go - Episode 107

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.

Jun 10, 202118 min

The future of in-person conferences - Episode 106

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...

Jun 08, 202115 min

How text summarization works using NLP - Episode 105

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.

Jun 01, 202115 min
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