What the Dev?

Jan 21 2025 292 ep. 16 mins 68
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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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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 Ban

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.

288: The negative long-term impacts of AI on software development pipelines (with Prismatic's Tanner Burson)

Dec 03 2024 10 mins  
In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tanner Burson, vice president of engineering at Prismatic, about how AI might be destabilizing development pipelines. They discuss:The lack of long-term thinking around AI in developmentWhy AI-generated code is hard to understand and maintainIssues with using AI to verify codeTranscript: https://sdtimes.com/ai/podcast-the

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