In this episode, Dave Rubinstein interviews Andrew Rynhard, founder and CTO of Sidero Labs. They discuss:

• How operating system architecture plays a role in the complexity of managing distributed Kubernetes
• The importance of avoiding accidentally introducing unnecessary complexity
• Talos Linux, and how it helps reduce complexity 

In this episode, we speak with Gerald Combs, director of open source at Sysdig, and Loris Degioanni, founder and CTO of Sysdig. They both co-created Wireshark and are now releasing a new tool called Stratoshark for inspecting cloud-native environments.

We discuss: 

• What the technology landscape looked like when they created Wireshark in the 90s
• Why they created Stratoshark
• The connection between the two tools
• The future of Stratoshark

You can learn more about Stratoshark and get a demo of it at SharkFest'25 in Richmond, VA from June 14-19. Register here: https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sfus/

In this episode, we interview Scott McCarty, senior principal product manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about what we can look forward to in 2025 when it comes to containers. 

Key talking points include:

• Cross-platform use cases for containers
• Bending containers to do more for us
• An overview of bootc and how it fits into the future of containers

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem at the CNCF, about the organization's recent Technology Landscape Radar report. 

Recorded the week following KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the conversation covers: 

• The key findings from the report
• The different levels of project maturity at the CNCF
• The importance of interoperability 

Note: This will be the final episode of Get With IT released in 2024. We'll be back in early January 2025! 

In this episode, editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Tobi Knaup, VP and general manager of cloud native at Nutanix. They discuss how AI is driving innovation in Kubernetes, and also how AI adoption is driving people to Kubernetes. 

In this episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Ayah Bdeir, senior strategic advisor at Mozilla, about the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) effort to define Open Source AI.

Key talking points include:

• Why there's a need to have a definition for open source AI
• The controversy over how to classify training data
• Mozilla's collaboration with OSI on this work 

Open Source AI definition: https://opensource.org/osd
This episode originally appeared on our other podcast What the Dev?, where we cover topics related to software development. 

In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Jim McGann, vice president of strategic partnerships at Index Engines, a company that detects data corruption from ransomware. 

They discuss:

• What Cybersecurity Awareness Month is and why it's celebrated
• The biggest security threats IT teams are dealing with today
• How IT teams can stay up-to-date on the latest security threats

Resources: CISA's Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 Guide

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 ITOps Times, as he talks with guest Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, about using cloud technology and planning to make sure massive spikes in traffic don't swamp your systems. 

Quantum computers may one day be able to break our current data encryption algorithms, so quantum researchers today have been researching new algorithms that could be used that can withstand these advanced computers.

Recently, NIST approved the first three of many such algorithms, and IBM Research developed two of those. So, for this episode, we spoke with Vadim Lyubashevsky, a cryptography researcher at IBM Research, about these algorithms.

Key talking points include:

• Why quantum computers will be able to break our current algorithms
• What's unique about the new algorithms
• The benefits of having multiple algorithms approved
• IBM's research in the quantum space

Further resources:
Video: Shor's Algorithm
Video: The Knapsack Problem
IBM blog post: Expanding the quantum-safe cryptography toolbox

In this episode we interview Sitaram Iyer, VP of emerging technologies at Venafi, about Google's proposed change to shorten TLS server certificate validity to 90 days.

We discuss: 

• The rationale behind shortening the validity timeframe
• What impact this would have on IT teams and organizations
• Potential security downsides of a shorter certificate window
• How companies can prepare for shorter certificates