What the Dev?

Apr 15 2025 303 ep. 16 mins 73
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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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304: The skills developers need in an era of AI development (with AWS' Antje Barth)

Apr 15 2025 14 mins  
In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Antje Barth, principal developer advocate for generative AI at AWS. They discuss: The skills that are becoming more important as AI adoption increasesThe emergence of the AI engineering roleThe trend of "vibe coding"Resources: Amazon Q Developer

303: How AI agents are transforming how software is built (with GitLab's Emilio Salvador)

Apr 08 2025 14 mins  
In this episode, Jenna Barron speaks with Emilio Salvador, vice president of strategy and developer relations at GitLab, about AI agents in software development. Key talking points include: How AI agents compare to traditional forms of automation in the software development processChallenges teams may face when implementing agentsThe impact AI agents will have on the role of softwa

302: Breaking down the barriers to serverless adoption (with DBOS' Jeremy Edberg)

Apr 01 2025 9 mins  
In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless. They discuss: Why serverless adoption has stagnatedThe complexity of serverless architectureWhat needs to change to increase adoption

301: What's new in Java 24 (with Azul's Simon Ritter)

Mar 25 2025 16 mins  
In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Simon Ritter, deputy CTO of Azul, about the six features in Java 24 he thinks are most exciting, including faster startup times for Java apps, improvements to the Stream Gatherers API, and more. Learn more about Java 24 here: https://sdtimes.com/java/java-24-is-now-available-with-release-of-stream-gatherers-class-file-apis/

300: The complex world of open source AI (with Red Hat's Stephen Watt)

Mar 18 2025 13 mins  
In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews, Stephen Watt, VP of the Office of the CTO at Red Hat, about open source AI. They discuss: Differences between open source software and open source AIThe difficulty in applying open source principals to AIEfforts made to define open source AI

299: The growing divide between developers and FinOps (with Martin Reynolds from Harness)

Mar 11 2025 13 mins  
In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Martin Reynolds, field CTO of Harness, about the misalignment between developers and FinOps. The company recently did a report that backed up the claims that developers and FinOps aren't properly aligned, and they talk about some of the findings of that report. Some key points of discussion include: The fact that over half of developers say

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