In this episode, Jenna speaks with Krishna Sai, CTO of SolarWinds, about operational resilience.

They discuss:

• How AI is impacting operational resilience
• What other trends are affecting it
• How to improve resilience

This episode originally aired on 4/29/25 on What the Dev?, our podcast for software developers. 

In this episode, Jenna interviewed Dean Coclin, senior director of Industry Strategy at DigiCert, about the recent vote by the CA/Browser Forum to shorten the lifespan of TLS certificates to 47 days by 2029. 

They discuss:

• The schedule for the changes and the gradual increments lifespans will shorten by
• The rationale behind shortening certificate lifetimes
• How to start preparing for changes

Read an article based on this episode here: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/preparing-for-tls-certificate-lifetimes-dropping-from-398-days-to-47-days-by-2029/

In this episode, Dave interviews Nadav Eiron, SVP of cloud engineering at Crusoe, about the challenges of transitioning AI from research into production.

They discuss:

• The high cost and expertise requirements for working with LLMs
• The need for better tooling and abstractions 
• The significant power requirements for AI infrastructure 

In this episode, Dave interviews Mark Thacker, senior manager for product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

They discuss:

• Post-quantum cryptography algorithms
• "Harvest now, decrypt later" practices
• Assessing the risk of quantum computing

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:

• What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes
• The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads
• Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers
• The story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews William Morgan, CEO and founder of Buoyant, the company behind the open source project Linkerd.

They discuss:

• What's new in Linkerd 2.18
• What service meshes are
• Why Buoyant brought Linkerd to the CNCF

This episode originally aired July 19, 2024, but it's still relevant today as we figure out how to meet the demands AI is placing on the power grid. 

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief Dave Rubinstein interviews Jason Carolan, chief innovation officer at Flexential, about the increased energy demands created by AI. Jason believes nuclear energy might be the solution to meeting the growing power needs. 

Key talking points include:

• Why there's increased demand on the grid now
• The role nuclear power could play
• The challenges to taking a nuclear approach
• Figuring out where to put new nuclear plants 

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS, about the current state of serverless.

They discuss:

• Why serverless adoption has stagnated
• The complexity of serverless architecture
• What needs to change to increase adoption

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Andrew Shikiar, CEO and executive director of FIDO Alliance. They discuss the state of passkey adoption in the industry today and how organizations can prepare for adopting them.

Key talking points include:

• Why passkeys are more secure than passwords
• How widespread their adoption is 
• Ways organizations can prepare for broader passkey adoption

Visit Passkey Central for more resources on passkeys: https://www.passkeycentral.org/home 

Read transcript here: https://www.itopstimes.com/itsec/qa-the-state-of-passkey-adoption/

In this episode, David Rubinstein interviews Ajit Sancheti, general manager of next generation SIEM at CrowdStrike, about why legacy SIEMs are struggling to keep up with the speed and sophistication of modern threats.

They discuss:

• The limitations of legacy SIEMs
• What factors are prompting the need for new solutions
• The role of AI in next-gen SIEMs