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In this episode, Jonathan and Will don their exterminator suits and talk about zombies, podcast automation, and where bugs come from.
- How design and architecture choices can lead to bugs
- Siloed teams solving similar problems with different implementations
- Context of code in peer-review
- Types of testing that can reduce and catch bugs
- Deadlines that force shipping code despite readiness
- Leaving breadcrumbs for future-you

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Vince Reed, Director of DevOps at Polygon Technology, a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without ever sacrificing security. They discuss how to build and scale a company that has grown from 40 to over 600 employees in 36 countries in the last year, implementing frameworks, communication, automation, security, and much more.

In this episode...- Addressing the unknown challenges of scaling and securing blockchain networks
- What skills are the same in blockchain as other industries
- What skills are unique to blockchain compared to other industries
- Building open source software
- The future of Blockchain and DevOps
- Working at Polygon- Building a remote-first company

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital's capabilities, and everything in-between.

In this episode…

• WebAssembly on the server
• The “edge” and edge computing
• Security, performance, portability
• WASM in the cloud limitations
• Virtualized sandboxes
• Alternatives to edge computing
• Writing in other languages
• What is the learning curve of the security model?
• Suborbital's capabilities and language support

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes that helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Matt Butcher, core creator of Helm, joins the show today to share about his experience building and implementing the program.

In this episode…

• Web, WebAssembly, and Kubernetes in the web browser
• Helm, the Kubernetes package manager
• Why Go was selected for Helm
• Regrets and mistakes with Helm
• Maintaining interest in open source projects
• What is upcoming for Helm
• The future of cloud computing and WASM
  
  

Aviad Mor is the CTO and co-founder of Lumigo, a serverless intelligence platform that helps developers understand and troubleshoot serverless applications. Today on the show, Jonathan Hall interviews Aviad to discuss observability within DevOps and the future of serverless.

In this episode…

• Observability and Lumigo
• Linux Kernel
• MRTG tool
• Managing distributed systems
• What is “serverless”?
• Tracing optimization
• Onboarding with Lumigo
• Black boxes and Kubernetes
• Observability tools

WebAssembly is a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs to interface software for facilitating interactions between programs and their host environment. Today on the show, WebAssembly expert Taylor Thomas shares his insights into WebAssembly and the endless possibilities for which it allows.

In this episode…

• What is WebAssembly
• Practical application for WebAssembly
• Building WebAssembly in cloud vs. browser
• Gain support from all major browsers
• Resources for building WebAssembly
• Run times and optimization
• Serverless and WebAssembly
• Where to get started

With recent high-profile software supply chain breaches and President Biden's Executive Order to improve the nation's cybersecurity, there is an increase in the urgency for businesses and governments to move to DevSecOps. How shall your enterprise integrate security with its DevOps process? Today on the show, Will Kelly outlines his approach to transforming from DevOps to DevSecOps.

In this episode…

• What is DevSecOps?
• Startups vs large enterprises
• First steps to making changes internally
• Common pitfalls with security
• Advocating for security
• Software supply chain security

DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption has developers shipping code faster than ever and security is struggling to keep up. How do you ensure secure deployment while still maintaining speed with releasing applications? Today on the show, Harshit Chitalia, CTO & Founder at Tromzo shares his industry insights related to application security and applicable ideas on what developers can start trying today.

In this episode…

• Navigating application security for developers
• How to keep track of security issues
• Shift left vs. shift right
• Security automation
• Tracking security processes
• Security solutions and tools

Connect with Harshit Chitalia

• LinkedIn: Harshit Chitalia

Links

• Homepage - Tromzo
• State of Modern Application Security: Insights From 400+ AppSec Practitioners - Tromzo

Today on the show, Ava Naeini shares about her patent pending intelligent engine tool that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems. The panel discusses what this new platform can do and how it can help enhance developers with distributed systems.

In this episode…

• The main challenges with testing distributed systems
• Developing confidence within your systems
• Performance testing models
• Monitoring and performance testing gaps
• Inclusive technical specs
• Pulse Operations (company)
• Current similar tooling options
• Production data analytics
• Accuracy and data exposure