

What the Dev?
SD Times
What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software development.
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May 11, 2021 • 17min
Making AI more accessible to developers with OctoML CEO Luis Ceze - Episode 102
In this week's episode we spoke with Luis Ceze, professor at the University of Washington, co-creator of the Apache TVM project, and co-founder and CEO of OctoML. He spoke about how open source projects like Apache TVM make AI and machine learning more accessible to developers, as well as the foundations that need to be in place to increase AI adoption.

May 4, 2021 • 19min
Why are we training ML models wrong and how can feature stores help? - Episode 101
In this week's episode, we talk about the problem of data leakage, which occurs when data scientists feed data that did not exist during the time of a past event to machine learning models. Monte Zweben, CEO of Splice Machine talks about how feature stores can help with this issue by validating when a data set actually occurred and then correcting these point-in-time consistency issues.

Apr 27, 2021 • 16min
Security in 2021 - Episode 100
We talk all things security with Jeff Williams, co-founder of OWASP and CTO and co-founder of Contrast Security. Williams talks about what went wrong with SolarWinds last year, how President Biden's administration is looking to address the ongoing cybersecurity issue, and Contrast's latest open-source security report.

Apr 20, 2021 • 15min
Commitments to digital transformation are high but IT is often unsure where to start - Episode 99
In this week’s podcast episode, we talk about The Digital Transformation Progress Report in which Digital.ai surveyed 600 IT pros to get a sense of where they are in their digital transformations.We spoke to Derek Langone, the president of Digital.ai to find out more about the key takeaways from the report.

Apr 13, 2021 • 18min
Developers look to online learning options for upskilling - Episode 98
In this week's episode, we spoke with Don Jones, Head of Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about how developers can improve their skills through online learning options. Pluralsight is also hosting #FreeApril and is making most of their skills platform available for free throughout the month of April. Visit pluralsight.com for more information.

Apr 6, 2021 • 16min
Adopting an Agile mindset during the pandemic - Episode 97
This week we talk to Emilia Breton, a mom of two and a Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach, about how she adopted an Agile mindset with her family to respond to the pandemic and adjust to the realities of work from home life.

Mar 30, 2021 • 15min
Open-source meets DevSecOps with Checkmarx's Stephen Gates - Episode 96
In today’s podcast, we talked about the use of open-source technology in DevSecOps and what the pros and cons of implementing it in security strategies are with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx.Also, be sure to listen to our other podcast episode where Stephen Gates provides great insights on All about KICS, the open source solution for static code analysis of Infrastructure as Code - Episode 92

Mar 23, 2021 • 20min
Embedded Analytics with Logi Analytics' Charles Caldwell - Episode 94
In this week's episode, we spoke with Charles Caldwell, VP of Product Management at Logi Analytics, about embedded analytics, how companies can use it to gain more insights, and some example use cases.

Mar 18, 2021 • 16min
What the Dev(Ops)? - A new DevOps assessment model from the DevOps Institute - Episode 93
In this episode, we talked about how organizations can assess their DevOps efforts together with Jayne Groll, the CEO of the DevOps Institute, which recently rolled out a crowd-sourced assessment of DevOps capabilities. As DevOps has become an enterprise objective and an enterprise program, the ability to understand the capabilities of the team and the entire enterprise was essential to understand where you are, where you're going and have you gotten there.

Mar 16, 2021 • 21min
All about KICS, the open source solution for static code analysis of Infrastructure as Code - Episode 92
In today’s podcast, we talked about KICS, which is an open-source project for securing infrastructure as code together with Stephen Gates, a security evangelist and senior solutions specialist at Checkmarx, the company driving the effort. We talk about why infrastructure as code has seen a tremendous rise and about the origins of the KICS project.


