What the Dev?

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, news editor Jenna Barron interviews Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, about how to evolve your engineering processes.

They discuss:

• How the dynamic of a team contributes to engineering efficiency
• How to play to the strengths of everyone on the team
• The benefits of engineers having ownership over the work they're doing

In this episode, SD Times news editor Jenna Barron interviews Christophe Sauthier, head of CNCF certifications and trainings, about the benefits of getting a certification. 

They discuss:

• CNCF's recently created Kubestronaut achievement, which developers can get for completing all five of the organization's Kubernetes certifications
• How certifications can improve a developer's career
• What to look for when thinking about getting a certifications

This episode was sponsored by Lucid Software, a provider of a visual collaboration suite for developers. Learn more here: https://lucid.co/ 

In this episode, David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times, interviews Jessica Guistolise, evangelist at Lucid Software, about how visual collaboration can improve developer experience.

They discuss:

• Challenges with gaining visibility in software development
• The value of visualizations
• How visual collaboration streamlines Agile development

Resources: 
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/accelerating-innovation-how-the-lucid-visual-collaboration-suite-boosts-agile-team-efficiency/ 

In this episode, SD 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 

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Stacey Kruczek, director of developer relations at Aerospike and steering committee member of the Developer Relations Foundation.

They talk about why developer relations is important, including why the Developer Relations Foundation was formed.

Key talking points:

• What a DevRel does
• How developer relations elevates the role of developers
• The future of developer relations

Transcript: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/qa-why-the-developer-relations-foundation-is-forming/

In this episode, we are joined by Thabang Mashologu, VP of community at the Eclipse Foundation, who dives into the findings of the organization's recent study on the State of Open Source in the Global South.

Key talking points include: 

• The positive impact that open source is having in the Global South
• How developers are using it to drive career growth
• Using open source to solve gender inequality issues 

Download the Report: https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/open-source-global-south-developers 

In this episode we speak to Tom Kincaid, senior vice president of database servers and tools at EDB and Jozef de Vreis, chief product engineering officer at EDB. Both are contributors to PostgreSQL, so they came on to talk about the new features in Postgres 17, which is now available (Note: episode was recorded prior to the release, which is why you'll hear it being referred to as an "upcoming" release).

Key talking points include:

• Why Postgres remains so popular
• Expanded JSON support in this release
• The addition of incremental backup 

This episode was sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. 

In this episode, we interview Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, about the role of buildpacks in software development today.

Key talking points include:

• The importance of the buildpacks community 
• Korifi, Cloud Foundry's platform for creating and deploying applications on Kubernetes
• Where Cloud Foundry fits in a Kubernetes world
• The importance of giving developers better tooling 

Further resources:
Article: Transition application code to images with Cloud Native Buildpacks
Webinar: From Source to Container – Gaining Productivity with Open Source Paketo Buildpacks

In this episode, we interview Matt Johnston, CEO of GitKraken, about developer experience. 

Some key points we discussed during our conversation include:

• Platform engineering as a component of developer experience
• How DevEx attracts top talent
• What "developer joy" is