Two megatrends for 2019 and beyond is scale and automation. The identity management space is a perfect example. Between all of the IP enabled devices (machines) coming on line, the billions of people and their identities, managing these billions and billions takes systems that will redefine scale and almost by definition have to be automated.

Enter Forgerock. They are a leader in managed identities for both consumer brands, IoT devices and more. We spoke with Peter Barker, their VP of product about the challenges to scaling at this level and how important identity management is.

In this DevOps Chat we look at some exciting new technology from a company called MissingLink. Yosi Tauguri is their CEO, founder and he is the guest on this DevOps Chat. Missinglink is part of the Samsung X product development team. Their mission is to use ai to help data engineers with deep learning problems that can transform organizations abilities to meet and exceed today's customers expectations. Really interesting stuff here.

Managing your machines identities is as or even more important than managing your personal identities. And with the explosion in the amount of machines thanks to IoT, containers, serverless and more their numbers are in the 10s of billions or more. That is a big job and someone has to do it.

That is why Venafi just security a $100 million dollar round of funding. We caught up with Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson to talk about how big and important a job it is to manage these billions and billions of machines (sorry for the Carl Sagan, but its true). Venafi has been doing this for 7 years and have learned a thing or two along the way. Listen in as Jeff educates us on this very important mission.

James Wickett is the man to go to for DevSecOps. The founder of the Rugged DevOps movement which has merged into the DevSecOps group, James is one of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of DevSecOps.

In this DevOps Chat James shares his views on what is on the horizon for DevSecOps and what are the most important things we can do to make our teams more secure. Have a listen as James gives us his take. Also look for the video of this interview on DevOps.com

Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. We chat with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal in this DevOps Chat about what makes Unravel a must have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds for big data, AIOps and the tech scene in general. Great listen.

Portshift brings a new identity-based application security model from code to runtime. Cloud or on prem, Portshift works. In this chat we speak with CEO Ran Ilany and VP Business Ops Eran Grabiner about what is unique to the Portshift solution and why you should consider it for your own application security. Especially for your DevOps teams.

SauceLabs has unveiled its new headless browser testing capability which will allow for automated and continuous testing to perform even faster.

I sat down with Lubos Parobek, VP of Product at Sauce to discuss what drove this development and how it can help DevOps teams be even more efficient with their testing.

Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet meets Apple, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices.

In this chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder, CEO Zack Blum and company advisor, Puppet co-founder, Luke Kanies to discuss the mission and challenge in managing your Apple devices.

While everyone wants to focus on building a new app, the fact is there are many, many apps already out there. They need to be maintained, updated and modernized. How do you upgrade these legacy apps to new infrastructure, frameworks, languages, etc? App Modernization is a thing.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Matt Tarnawsky of IBM about App Modernization and Service Virtualization, testing and more.

It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation, as well as a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul Chapman, CIO of Box about these topics and he gives us his own take on what the environment is like for companies and what they should do to thrive today. Great conversation, enjoy!