SD Times

What the Dev?

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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SD Times

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Technology

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Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

Atlassian's big move for Bitbucket Cloud - Episode 135 16.11.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses Atlassian's move of Bitbucket Cloud to the AWS Cloud. His guests are Robert Krohn, Head Of Engineering, Agile & DevOps at Atlassian and Daniel Tao, Head of Engineering, Bitbucket Cloud at Atlassian.

DevX as a company-wide effort - Episode 134 09.11.2021

In this week's episode, Lei Zhang, head of developer experience at Bloomberg Engineering discusses the importance of Dev X and why he believes it should be approached by organizations as a company wide effort rather than having it fall on one specific team.

What's up next for low code - Episode 133 02.11.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses why low code development is exploding in popularity. His guest is Jason Beres, of Infragistics, the SVP of Developer Tools at Infragistics.

The next wave of web development - Episode 132 26.10.2021

In this week's episode, we spoke with Guillermo Rauch, CEO of frontend development company Vercel, and Sam Lambert, CEO at serverless database provider PlanetScale. Though these companies don't provide similar technologies, both believe together these technologies are at the heart of the future of the web. 

Securing cloud-native applications - Episode 131 21.10.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. His guest is Steve Giguere, a developer advocate at Bridgecrew , a company that streamlines cloud security and enforces policies throughout the entire development lifecycle.

Prioritizing developer mental health - Episode 130 19.10.2021

In this episode, we talked about the importance of prioritizing mental health awareness in developer and open source communities. With us today is Josep Prat, a open source engineering manager at cloud technology company Aiven. Josep also heads up Aiven's open source program office.

Komodor's new workflow capability for Kubernetes - Episode 129 12.10.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses Kubernetes and the new workflow capability that has been launched for the Kubernetes-native troubleshooting company Komodor's solution. His guest is Itiel Schwartz, the CTO and co-founder of Komodor. Be sure to sign up for KubeCon happening now through the 15th!

A new debugging experience for Kubernetes - Episode 128 07.10.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses a new debugging experience for Kubernetes from the company Rookout. His guest is Liran Haimovitch, the cofounder and CTO of Rookout. Also, be sure to sign up for KubeCon coming up next week on October 11-15th!

The acquisition of Lightstep and what it means for observability - Episode 127 05.10.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the acquisition of observability company Lightstep by ServiceNow and what that means for the observability and SRE space.  His guest is Austin Parker, lead developer advocate at Lightstep who will also be talking about the OpenTelemetry project. 

Building healthcare apps using Olive - Episode 126 30.09.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses the company Olive, which offers a platform and a development kit for people to create apps in the healthcare vertical space. His guests are Patrick Jones, executive vice president of partnerships at Olive, and Robin Lai, senior product manager at Olive.

The two big issues that surround application security - Episode 125 28.09.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses issues that surround application security including attack surface management and application inventory. His guest is Dennis Hurst, the president, and co-founder at Saltworks Security. 

The best way to measure developer productivity - Episode 124 23.09.2021

Developer productivity is important to many companies, and they invest heavily into it, by establishing programs to track metrics. But does tracking those things actually improve productivity? In this episode, Yves Junqueira, CEO of YourBase shares why productivity can’t be boiled down to a single metric and why if you focus too much on the numbers, you could lose sight of what’s actually importan...

DevOps and why it still might be in its early days - Episode 123 21.09.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times "What the Dev?" podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses DevOps and why we might still be in its early days. His guest is Steve Kearns, the vice president of product management at Elastic. 

How incident response helps with complex applications - Episode 122 16.09.2021

In this week's episode of the SD Times 'What the Dev' podcast, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein discusses incident response and where it fits in in the complex applications and infrastructures being created today. His guest is John Egan, co-founder and CEO at Kintaba.

The challenges of mobile testing - Episode 121 14.09.2021

As organizations have shifted to a mobile-first approach, they've found that the main challenge is testing for the sheer variety of devices out there. With me today to talk about the challenges of mobile testing is Nadya Knysh, the Managing Director at a1qa , North America. a1qa is a company that provides full-cycle QA and quality engineering and ensures high software quality.

I.T.'s impact on climate change - Episode 120 07.09.2021

 In this week's episode, we talked about the ramifications of the recent Climate Report by the United Nations which declared the climate crisis as a code red for humanity.  We spoke to Ali Fenn, the president of ITRenew, on the impact that the I.T. industry has on climate change.   

The evolution of application security scanning - Episode 119 31.08.2021

In this episode you’ll hear from Scott Johnson, senior director of product management at Synopsys, about how application security has evolved over the years, what security challenges developers face today, and the “must-haves” for rapid scanning solutions. Find out more about Synopsys' scanning solutions at synopsys.com .

Bringing Open Policy Agent through its graduation from the CNCF - Episode 118 26.08.2021

Getting an open-source project hosted by a foundation can provide a lot of opportunities for growth, such as through increased marketing and awareness. In this episode we spoke with Torin Sandall, VP of Open Source at Styra, about the process of donating Open Policy Agent (OPA) to the CNCF and its journey up to its recent graduation. 

The latest on Scrum and EBM - Episode 117 24.08.2021

Today we’re going to be talking about recent advancements by Scrum.org  that include a new Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) training course and about  Evidence-Based Management (EBM) itself. EBM is a framework that was created in 2014 as an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilitie...

Traversing the value stream with ConnectALL's Lance Knight - Episode 116 17.08.2021

In this week's podcast, we talk about the uptake in value stream, and the number of companies that now hang their hats on the topic. Listen in as we speak with Lance Knight, president and COO at ConnectALL, and a speaker at our VSMcon events. He highlights what he says is the number one thing a value stream platform needs to do.

The challenges and benefits of continuous delivery - Episode 115 10.08.2021

 In this week's episode, we spoke about continuous delivery (CD), the premise of delivering safely when you want to. So far, the number of companies adopting CD seems to be behind what was originally projected by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and the difficulty of getting started may be a culprit. We spoke to Ravi Lachman, an evangelist at Harness, about the challenges as well as benefi...

The state of DevOps in CS education - Episode 114 03.08.2021

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hupy, senior education program manager at GitLab about how DevOps is usually missing from computer science curriculums at universities, and what’s needed in order to provide an educational experience that prepare students for the development world."

Cybersecurity and the Tokyo Olympics - Episode 113 27.07.2021

With the Tokyo Olympics well underway, many cybersecurity insiders are still on high alert that the event could still face an onslaught of cyberattacks.  In this podcast episode, we covered why the event is such a big target for hackers, what the threat landscape looks like, what defenses should be in place, and more together with Lisa Plaggemier, the interim executive director at the National Cyb...

What is ModelOps? - Episode 112 20.07.2021

In this week's episode, we spoke about what ModelOps is and what it's ideal for. Joining us is Seth Clark, the co-founder and head of product at Modzy, a software platform for organizations and developers to responsibly deploy, manage, and get value from AI at scale.

Preventing outages with defensive programming - Episode 112 13.07.2021

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.

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