What the Dev?

In this week's episode we spoke about the recent outages that we've seen around the industry and how organizations can use defensive programming to prevent these software bugs from crashing applications.Joining us is James Smith, the senior vice president of products for the Bugsnag group at SmartBear.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Mike Tria, head of platform engineering at Atlassian, to discuss how automation can help with management aspects of microservices as well as things to avoid when getting started with microservices.

Weaveworks CTO Cornelia Davis joins us to talk about the idea of GitOps, what it is, why it is becoming so popular, what are the benefits and how do you go beyond the basic tools and practices. Weaveworks recently released a GitOps Maturity Model that helps organizations evaluate where they are on their journey to continuous delivery with GitOps.  

In today's podcast episode, we talk about  Quarkus, a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework that was created to help Java developers work in a more cloud-native world.The 2.0 release is scheduled for later this month and with us to talk about it is Rich Sharples, senior director of product management at Red Hat. 

In this podcast episode, we talk about how organizations need to apply the same principles of CI/CD to documentation to keep developers up to speed and to help out with onboarding. As business value evolves the SDLC at an ever-increasing pace, the developers that write certain code simply don’t have the time to create high-quality documentation with their current tools.Our guest this week is Omer Rosenbaum, the CTO at Swimm and the author of the newly released Continuous Documentation Manifesto.

In today's podcast episode, we talked about what is the best place to put your open-source project: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) or the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and what really are the differences between the two. Here to talk with us today is Randy Abernethy, a managing partner at RX-M, a cloud-native training and consulting firm. 

In today's podcast episode, we talked about the future of in-person conferences and training (something that the software industry relied on heavily before the pandemic).  During the pandemic, much was to be learned from the massive growth of online conferences which allowed for more attendees and this will shape how in-person conferences happen moving forward. Joining us is Allie Magyar, the founder and CEO of the company Hubb that helps conference and meeting professionals plan and manage their onsite and online events from start to finish. 

In today's episode, we talk about text summarization which uses natural language processing to take a bunch of text and narrow it down to a key summary.To find out more about how the models work and what use cases they're best for, we have Dr. Alex Fabbri, who has led research into text summarization at Yale University and previously interned at Facebook AI and AWS AI. 

In this episode, we talk to Julia Reinhardt, a Mozilla fellow as well as an expert in AI governance and privacy, about the European Union's proposed legislation on AI regulation. Reinhardt talks about the details of the legislation, what this will mean for US businesses and consumers, and other EU technology regulations on the horizon. 

This June, Google is going to release Core Web Vitals, which will capture performance data and boost SEO impact of an application if it meets a certain performance threshold. The 3 metrics that Google is focusing on are web loading performance, first input delay and layout stability. We talked about each of these components and more with Patrick Meenan, an engineering fellow at Catchpoint.