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In today's episode, Matt Martin, the CEO of Clockwise shares his insights on the moves that actually increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, along with tips on how to best incorporate diversity training, engage leadership, and measure your progress.

We spoke to John Allspaw, the principal and founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, a consulting company that helps organizations deal with data incidents, to talk about the growing concept of resilience engineering. In a nutshell, reverse engineering is concerned with adverse external events that can lead to system failure. It tests how much an organization can withstand stress and other challenging f...

In today's episode we spoke with Kevin Brennan, author of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge , and Bob Galen, the president and principle agile coach at RGalen Consulting, about Agile and project management.

Peter Wang, CEO of Anaconda, talks about why data science is gaining so much attention lately, tools necessary for businesses to be successful, and how Python plays a role in all of it.

The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. We talk to Deb Goodkin, executive director of the foundation, about how the foundation got started and where it is going as well as some new resources for developers to take advantage of. 

In this week’s episode we’re speaking with Ensono’s VP of Product Management, Lin Classon ( @lin_IRL ), about how the representation of women speakers have improved over the years, what issues they face at in-person and in virtual conferences, and what work is still to be done. 2020 Speak Up report: https://www.ensono.com/resources/speak-2020-redesigning-tech-conferences-women-mind  

In this week's episode, we talked about the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT) that measures fairness in large-scale AI applications with Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Shriram Vasudevan and Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Cyrus Diciccio. 

In this week's episode, we spoke to Sandeep Sood, the CEO of Kunai, about the growth of embedded finance and its potential for major disruption. Sood's take is "if you're not a fintech company today, you're going to become one." Listen in to find out why!

In this week's episode we talk to Steve Pereira, the founder and CEO of Visible , about the importance for value stream mapping, how to get started, how to take it beyond 101, and what to look out for along the way. You can also listen to Pereira's Virtual VSM DevCon talk on value stream mapping here , register for next year's Virtual VSM DevCon conference on March 10, 2021, or cont...

In this week's podcast, we spoke to Steve Boone, the head of product management at HCL Software, about how companies are coming along in their value stream management journey. Are they adopting? What are some of the challenges they're facing? What are the benefits that they see? Save the date! VSM DevCon is back on March 10th, 2021 to examine the benefits of creating and managing value s...

In this week's podcast episode, we spoke to Veracode's Patrick McNeil and Cody Bertram about how it's becoming more important to get developers up to speed on security in today's "shift-left" world. For a deeper dive into developers' role in security, join this webinar on September 10th at 11am ET/8:00am PT.

In today’s episode we're speaking with Brendan O’Leary, senior developer evangelist at GitLab. We discuss the ongoing conflict between speed and quality when deploying applications. He also offers guidance on how developers can succeed at both without cutting corners.  Here are links to resources we mentioned in this episode: Guide to remote work GitLab Commit

In this week's episode, we talk to Catchpoint CEO Mehdi Daoudi about the company's SRE report. He talks about the struggles SREs are facing at home, as well as the role automation plays in reducing toil for SREs. 

In this week's episode we covered the debate in the open source community regarding trademarks that started after Google announced the Open Usage Commons in the beginning of July, and IBM and CNCF brought up concerns that the use of new projects and products will be left up to the interpretation of certain players, such as Google. We spoke with Heikki Nousiainen the CTO at Aiven, to find out...

Roman Stanek, CEO of GoodData, talks about the benefits of using freemium software, the skills required to use the free version, and how IT teams should approach freemium software options. 

In this bonus podcast we talk to experts about how to successfully manage value streams, how to use value stream management to elevate Agile and DevOps practices, and what's still to come. To learn more visit https://events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon . 

This week, we spoke to Eric Schabell, the portfolio architect director at Red Hat, about Agile integration. A lot of enterprises are moving in the direction of Agile teams all with an eye on the digital transformation story where they're headed towards delivering things in a cloud native fashion. You'll hear some of the best ways in which to achieve that Agile integration. 

In this week's episode we talk to the co-founders of Netlify, a modern web development platform provider that coined the term Jamstack. Jamstack is a new rising development and architectural approach that comes with the promise of delivering a faster, more accessible, more maintainable and globally available web. 

Today’s episode is about how monetization can help make open source software more secure The anonymity of the original open source coder today means that no one is properly equipped to set up the appropriate security protocols on software utilizing the code. We spoke with Chen Ravid, the the cofounder and head of product at xs: code, to find out how developers can be incentivized to return to proj...

In this week’s episode, we spoke to Fletcher Heisler, the director of developer enablement at Veracode about security and working from home during the pandemic and beyond. Also we talk about how developers are taking on a more active approach to security, making it a shared responsibility in organizations. 

In this bonus episode we talk to Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, authors of the book Agile Conversations. The authors talk about five conversations teams need to have in order to build trust, alleviate fear, and reach peak performance. You can learn more from Squirrel and Fredrick at this month's Virtual VSM DevCon. Visit events.sdtimes.com/valuestreamdevcon to register today. 

With CCPA enforcement starting, privacy should be top of mind for most companies. Fastly's VP of data governance Lisa Phillips joins us to discuss the practice of data privacy by design, and lessons learned from implementing it. 

In this week's episode, we spoke with Dr. Vince Molinaro, a strategic leadership expert and author, about how communication is now more important than ever between leaders and their teams since many software development jobs are staying remote even as businesses in some areas are starting to open up.

Vice President of Sonatype Derek Weeks returns to the podcast to discuss the DevSecOps Community survey, what changes have happened in the open source and security space since we last spoke, and the state of software quality.

In this week's episode, we spoke to Optimzely CTO about feature experimentation how Optimizely has been striving to make A/B testing easier for teams that are most amenable to quick experimentation.