What the Dev?

While we largely talk about AI's impact on software development here at SD Times, the reality is that AI will impact nearly every discipline, from business to finance to education to journalism. The University of Maryland recently launched Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) as a collaborative hub for AI research across different departments and subjects.Hal Daumé III, AIM's inaugural director and a Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, joins us in this episode to talk about AIM's formation, goals, and the role educators have in teaching students how to use AI to properly prepare them for the future workforce. 

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, is joined by Gina Tran, director of product for Bitwarden. They talk about the ever growing problem of secrets getting leaked into production, and why it happens. They also talk about how to prevent this problem and what improvements she has seen in secrets management practices over the last couple of years. Related reading: 1. The key to successful secrets management is to make the best way the easiest way2. Implement a good secrets management practice to reduce your security risk

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Mik Freedman, senior director of VMware Tanzu Labs. They talk about anti-patterns in Agile and how by identifying them, developers can advance their Agile software development practice. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Kim Mirazimi, chief revenue officer at KMS Technology and Nilesh Patel, senior director of software services at KMS Technology.They talk about how testing can improve a company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), which is a way of measuring profitability. Kim and Nilesh make the case that by improving testing, organizations can lower costs and deliver higher quality software product more quickly. This episode was sponsored by KMS Technology. Learn more about them here: https://kms-technology.com/

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Adam Gluck, CEO and founder of Copia Automation, about using DevOps practices in the manufacturing sector and how many of the principles transfer. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the current state of value stream in the industry and what organizations can do to improve their value streams. His guest is Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom. Check out the 2024 Value Stream Management Summit here.

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses how cognitive fatigue is compounding the software productivity problem. His guest is Hans Dockter, CEO at Gradle Inc. and lead at Gradle Open Source Project.

In this episode, we speak with Duane Pozza, former assistant director of the FTC and AI lawyer at Wiley Rein, about President Biden’s executive order on AI and the European Union’s AI Act, and what impact those will have on AI technology. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the creation of Winglang, a programming language for the cloudHis guest is Shai Ber, co-founder and COO at Wing Cloud.

In this episode we interview Erin Boyd, director of emerging technologies at Red Hat, about where platform engineering fits into the technology landscape, how organizations are implementing platform engineering teams, and how important this new discipline will become as companies are looking to deliver business value from AI.