What the Dev?

Nov 19 2024 286 ep. 16 mins 66
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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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287: How AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes (with Nutanix' Tobi Knaup)

Nov 19 2024 9 mins  
In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes.

286: Improving and evolving your engineering processes (with Stytch's Julianna Lamb)

Nov 12 2024 16 mins  
In this episode, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, about how to evolve your engineering processes.They discuss:How the dynamic of a team contributes to engineering efficiencyHow to play to the strengths of everyone on the teamThe benefits of engineers having ownership over the work they're doing

285: Using certifications to level up your development career (with CNCF's Christophe Sauthier)

Nov 05 2024 12 mins  
In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Christophe Sauthier, head of CNCF certifications and trainings, about the benefits of getting a certification. They discuss:CNCF's recently created Kubestronaut achievement, which developers can get for completing all five of the organization's Kubernetes certificationsHow certifications can improve a developer's careerW

284: Improving developer experience with visual collaboration tools (Sponsored by Lucid Software)

Oct 29 2024 15 mins  
This episode was sponsored by Lucid Software, a provider of a visual collaboration suite for developers. Learn more here: https://lucid.co/ In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, interviews Jessica Guistolise, evangelist at Lucid Software, about how visual collaboration can improve developer experience.They discuss:Challenges with gaining visibility in soft

283: Defining Open Source AI (with Mozilla's Ayah Bdeir)

Oct 22 2024 13 mins  
In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI.Key talking points include:Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AIThe controversy over how to classify training dataMozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work Open Source

282: The importance of developer relations (with Aerospike's Stacey Kruczek)

Oct 15 2024 15 mins  
In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Stacey Kruczek, director of developer relations at Aerospike and steering committee member of the Developer Relations Foundation.They talk about why developer relations is important, including why the Developer Relations Foundation was formed.Key talking points:What a DevRel doesHow developer relations elevates t

281: The state of open source in the Global South (with the Eclipse Foundation's Thabang Mashologu)

Oct 08 2024 18 mins  
In this episode, we are joined by Thabang Mashologu, VP of community at the Eclipse Foundation, who dives into the findings of the organization's recent study on the State of Open Source in the Global South.Key talking points include: The positive impact that open source is having in the Global SouthHow developers are using it to drive career growthUsing open source to solve gender

280: What's new in Postgres 17 (with contributors Tom Kincaid and Jozef de Vries)

Oct 01 2024 14 mins  
In this episode we speak to Tom Kincaid, senior vice president of database servers and tools at EDB and Jozef de Vreis, chief product engineering officer at EDB. Both are contributors to PostgreSQL, so they came on to talk about the new features in Postgres 17, which is now available (Note: episode was recorded prior to the release, which is why you'll hear it being referred to as

279: The importance of buildpacks in developing cloud native applications (sponsored by Cloud Foundry Foundation)

Sep 24 2024 11 mins  
This episode was sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. In this episode, we interview Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about the role of buildpacks in software development today.Key talking points include:The importance of the buildpacks community Korifi, Cloud Foundry's platform for creating and deploying applications on KubernetesWhere Cloud Foun

278: Defining developer experience and why it matters (with GitKraken's Matt Johnston)

Sep 17 2024 13 mins  
In this episode, we interview Matt Johnston, CEO of GitKraken, about developer experience. Some key points we discussed during our conversation include:Platform engineering as a component of developer experienceHow DevEx attracts top talentWhat "developer joy" is