What the Dev?

Mar 04 2025 297 ep. 16 mins 71
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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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298: Building a prompt engineering playground for faster company-wide innovation (with LinkedIn's Lukasz Karolewski and Ajay Prakash)

Mar 04 2025 19 mins  
In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Lukasz Karolewski, senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, and Ajay Prakash, staff software engineer at LinkedIn, to talk about how they built a prompt engineering playground at LinkedIn to improve cross-team collaboration with non-technical teams. They discuss: Why they built the playgroundThe choice to use Jupyter notebooksThe work the

297: Why a clean codebase is key when using AI-assisted coding tools (with Tabnine's Eran Yahav)

Feb 25 2025 12 mins  
In this episode David Rubinstein interviews Eran Yahav, co-founder and CTO of Tabnine, about why its important to provide AI assistants with clean code. They discuss: The importance of defining organizational rules and best practices to guide the AIHow to use AI-assisted refactoring to improve legacy codebasesIf organizations should apply KonMari principles to their codebases

296: DeepSeek Unpacked: Security, Innovation, and What’s Next

Feb 18 2025 26 mins  
Join SD Times news editor Jenna Barron for a panel discussion on DeepSeek and what developers need to know about this model that has been in the spotlight for the past few weeks. The conversation covers why DeepSeek has gained so much attention, what makes it different from other models, proper data security and hygiene practices for using DeepSeek, and predictions for the future o

295: How middle code is bridging the gap between low-code and traditional programming (with OpsMill's Damien Garros)

Feb 11 2025 10 mins  
In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Damien Garros, co-founder and CEO of OpsMill, about middle code, a concept that sits somewhere between programming and low-code/no-code. They discuss: What middle code isThe influence generative AI has had on this technologyHow middle code can be used to accomplish things not possible with low-code or no-code

294: From "shift left" to "shift everywhere" (with OpenText Cybersecurity's Dylan Thomas)

Feb 04 2025 13 mins  
In this episode, we interview Dylan Thomas, senior director of product engineering at OpenText Cybersecurity, about the evolution from shift left to shift everywhere. At the end of 2024, he predicted: "In 2025, DevSecOps will continue evolving beyond the ‘shift-left’ paradigm, embracing a more mature ‘shift everywhere’ approach. This shift calls on organizations to apply th

293: The best ways to deal with flaky tests (with Gradle's Trisha Gee)

Jan 21 2025 16 mins  
In this episode, we spoke with Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, about flaky tests and the challenges of dealing with them. Key talking points: What is a flaky test?How can they be identified?How can they be prevented in the future? Other useful resources on flaky tests: Develocity’s Flaky Test DetectionTrisha’s recent Flaky Test webinar Trisha’s Blog - How Top B

292: Software Engineering Intelligence gains traction as Value Stream Management loses it (with Digital.ai's Derek Holt)

Jan 21 2025 16 mins  
In this episode, we spoke with Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, about the emerging practice of software engineering intelligence (SEI). At the end of last year, he predicted that "SEI will have a breakout year in 2025 as more and more businesses realize they need to measure the end-to-end business process of software development and delivery in order to drive continuous improvement,

291: Containers in 2025: Bridging the gap between software and hardware (with Red Hat's Scott McCarty)

Jan 14 2025 11 mins  
In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. Key talking points include: Cross-platform use cases for containersBending containers to do more for usAn overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

290: The state of software supply chain security (with Sonatype's Brian Fox)

Dec 17 2024 14 mins  
In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. They discuss the company's 10th annual State of the Software Supply Chain report. Key talking points include: The rapid growth of malicious open-source componentsThe increasing length of time needed to remediate vulnerabilitiesHow regulations impact supply chain securityNote: This will be the fi

289: Balancing security and convenience in biometric authentication (with Aware's Mohamed Lazzouni)

Dec 10 2024 15 mins  
In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Mohamed Lazzouni, CTO of Aware, a company that offers identity verification services. They discuss the current state of biometric authentication, including its challenges, user experience, and ethical considerations. They also talk about concerns regarding deepfakes and the countermeasures to protect against them.