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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...

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 suc...

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...

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 cloud His 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.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses AI-powered software development and some of the challenges that creates.  His guest is Derek Holt, CEO at Digital.ai. 

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein speaks with Scott Ambler software engineer, consultant and author of many books including Disciplined Agile Delivery about how companies can determine whether they are truly data driven. 

In this podcast episode,  SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about using code to train AI, especially with open-source code. Joining him is Chris Wright, CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat.

In this episode, we dive into how low-code platforms are starting to incorporate generative AI capabilities, how this will help citizen developers, and what processes become easiest when combined with generative AI. Joining us to explain all this is Nanxi Liu, co-founder and co-CEO of Blaze.tech, a no-code platform that has already started combining these two technologies to benefit customers. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses best practices for building successful data strategies based on Capital One's new research. Joining him is Christina Egea, Vice President, Product, Enterprise Data at Capital One. 

In this episode, News Editor Jenna Barron interviews Auren Hoffman, CEO of SafeGraph, which is one of the founding members of Placekey, a free entity resolution service for physical locations. They discuss why the tool was created, what its uses are, and what features are coming down the line. Learn more about Placekey: https://www.placekey.io/ Learn more about SafeGraph: https://www.safegraph.com...

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein talks about using code to train AI and the new problems it can pose -- especially with open-source code. Joining him is Chris Wright, CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat.

In this podcast episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses observability and the latest on OpenTelemetry.  Joining him is Morgan McLean, director of product management at Splunk and cofounder of the OpenTelemetry project. 

In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses the debate surrounding shift left. His guest is Peter Klimek, director of technology in the office of the CTO at Imperva. 

In this episode, we talk about the role of CNCF in shaping the future of generative AI whether that’s hardware optimization, infrastructure scalability, and innovative application development.  Our guest is Jorge  Castro, developer advocate at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Listeners can also tune in on-demand to some of the great talks that took place at AI.dev on Dec. 12-13th here !

In this episode, we discuss how despite the wide adoption of AI coding assistants among developers, trust in the security of code suggested and general security politics around AI are lacking.  Our guest is  Simon Maple, head of AI advocacy Advocate at Snyk to talk about some of the key findings of Snyk’s 2023 AI Code Security Report. 

The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort led by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to provide developers with reliable and interoperable open map data. It was first announced in December 2022 and has already released its first maps dataset with information on over 59 million places around the world.  In this episode, we spoke with Marc Prioleau, executive director at Overture Maps F...

What do Taylor Swift concerts and Black Friday have in common? Both events can overwhelm systems when those platforms are built on legacy technology.  Join David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, as he talks with guest Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO at Cockroach Labs, about using cloud technology and planning to make sure massive spikes in traffic don't swamp your systems. 

In this episode, SD Times Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz explores the importance of data integrity when working with AI models. Joining him is John Jeske, solution architect and  CTO for the Advanced Technology Innovation Group at KMS Technology. For more info be sure to check out our article "Mastering Data Governance: A Technical Blueprint for the Age of Generative AI."

In this week's episode, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Puneet Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Amberflo, to talk about usage-based pricing, how it compares to other pricing models, the pros and cons, and how it may evolve in the industry in the near future.