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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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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.